index approach which is based on the directional distance function. Our findings indicate that the average bank operates … quite far below the frontier of the best-practice bank, mainly due to allocative inefficiency rather than technical …

volumes or total assets at the bank-level can exacerbate a country's macroeconomic volatility. Here, the correlation between … bank-specific and macroeconomic volatility depends on the degree of financial market openness. Particularly in those …. -- granularity ; financial openness ; bank market structure ; macroeconomic volatility …

This paper empirically examines the historical allegation of fraudulent behavior of bank management by scrutinizing the … balance sheet of individual bank and finds none of the Illinois free banks was without specie reserve. Applying econometric … respectively. Other liabilities like banks equity capital and notes of other banks insignificant. -- free banks ; bank …

Quality of asset and efficiency of bank is highly correlated. The efficiency of banking in post-liberalization period … equation to estimate the relative efficiency of different bank groups in India. The estimation using EG value is more accurate … its growth rate, inference is generated. The analysis focused on identifying relative efficiency of different bank groups …

analysis, three Islamic banks (Faisal Islamic Bank, ElBaraka Misr, and National Bank for Development) and six conventional … banks (National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr, Bank of Alexandria, National Societe Generale Bank, Arab African International … Bank, Commercial International Bank) were used during the period from 2008 to 2010. Financial ratios were estimated from …