This study evaluates whether the development of Islamic banking influences macroeconomic efficiency. Thus, we … approach to estimate technical efficiency at the country level for a sample of 70 countries. We use a unique hand … favours macroeconomic efficiency. Furthermore, we have support for a non-linear relation with efficiency for Islamic banking …

We use data from the World Bank Global Findex database for 2011 to analyze financial inclusion in China, including … comparisons with the other BRICS countries. We find a high level of financial inclusion in China manifested by greater use of … voluntary. The use of formal credit is however less frequent in China than in the other BRICS. Borrowing through family or …

We use data from the World Bank Global Findex database for 2011 to analyze financial inclusion in China, including … comparisons with the other BRICS countries. We find a high level of financial inclusion in China manifested by greater use of … voluntary. The use of formal credit is however less frequent in China than in the other BRICS. Borrowing through family or …

We use data from the World Bank Global Findex database for 2011 to analyze financial inclusion in China, including … comparisons with the other BRICS countries. We find a high level of financial inclusion in China manifested by greater use of … voluntary. The use of formal credit is however less frequent in China than in the other BRICS. Borrowing through family or …

We use data from the World Bank Global Findex database for 2011 to analyze financial inclusion in China, including … comparisons with the other BRICS countries. We find a high level of financial inclusion in China manifested by greater use of … voluntary. The use of formal credit is however less frequent in China than in the other BRICS. Borrowing through family or …

in China. Using the most recent wave of the World Values Survey, which included information on trust in banks from the … survey in China in 2012, we perform ordered logit estimations to investigate the potential influence of a large set of …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … the capital ratio on banks’ cost efficiency. We find that such an increase has a positive effect on cost efficiency, the …