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Market structure, efficiency and profitability of insurance companies in Ghana

Alhassan, Abdul Latif; Addisson, George Kojo; Asamoah, … - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 10 (2015) 4, pp. 648-669

variable, profitability was measured as return on assets while controlling for size, underwriting risk, leverage, GDP growth … of the author’s knowledge, this study is the first to examine the determinants of profitability in the non-life insurance …

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Ownership structure, corporate governance and bank efficiency: an empirical analysis of panel data from the banking industry in Ghana

Bokpin, Godfred A. - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 13 (2013) 3, pp. 274-287

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to document the effect of ownership structure and corporate governance on bank efficiency in the Ghanaian banking industry. Design/methodology/approach – The author applies both accounting data and efficiency measures from the period 1999‐2007 via...

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Efficiency analysis of UAE banks using data envelopment analysis

Mohamed Shahwan, Tamer; Mohammed Hassan, Yousef - In: Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 29 (2013) 1, pp. 4-20

Purpose – The current study aims to explore and measure the profitability, marketability, and social disclosure … order to estimate the relative efficiency of the Emirati banks based on three different dimensions: profitability … profitability and social disclosure activities than marketability activities. The results also provide additional evidence regarding …

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On the cross‐methodological validation of bank efficiency assessments

Perera, Shrimal; Skully, Michael - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 29 (2012) 1, pp. 26-42

Purpose – Since there is no agreement on the consistency of their estimates, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) generate consistent bank efficiency assessments....

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The effect of market structure, regulation, and risk on banks efficiency : Evidence from the Gulf cooperation council countries

I. Maghyereh, Aktham; Awartani, Basel - In: Journal of Economic Studies 41 (2014) 3, pp. 405-430

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency performance of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) banking sector. The primary focus is to assess whether market power, risk taking activities, and regulations have significant effects on GCC banks’ efficiency performance....

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Effects of branch expansion on bank efficiency: evidence from Japanese regional banks

Harimaya, Kozo; Kondo, Kazumine - In: Managerial Finance 42 (2016) 2, pp. 82-94

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether branch expansions have realized efficiency gains by focussing on regional banks in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a single-step estimation procedure, where both cost frontier parameters and inefficiency effects...

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Quality, Sunk Costs and Competition

Crespi, John M.; Marette, Stephan - In: Review of Marketing Science 7 (2009) 1

This paper explores the link between quality, cost and concentration. Using concentration and cost data and product quality indicators for 2,244 products in over eighty industries in 1997 and 2002 in the US, a two-stage, ordered probit, random effects estimation explores the impact of...

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Revisiting corporate reputation and firm performance link

Lee, Jooh; Jungbae Roh, James - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 19 (2012) 4/5, pp. 649-664

customers to repurchase and willingly pay a premium price for products. However, despite the perceptive association between … affects profitability negatively. It was surprising to find that innovativeness turned out to have no impact on financial …

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Sovereign wealth and the crisis: some consequences for Western international businesses

Weiss, Barbara; van Wyk, Jay - In: critical perspectives on international business 9 (2013) 4, pp. 444-466

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the wide-ranging implications of the global economic crisis and provide a comprehensive assessment of the how the structure of the market and competition within it is changing as a result. Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology...

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Does the duplication of viewing law apply to radio listening?

Lees, Gavin; Wright, Malcolm - In: European Journal of Marketing 47 (2013) 3/4, pp. 674-685

Purpose – There has been long‐standing interest in the duplication of audience between media vehicles, starting with work by Agostini and later developed by Goodhardt, Ehrenberg and Collins into the “duplication of viewing law”. The aim of this paper is to further extend duplication...

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