Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between competition and efficiency in the Ghanaian … banking industry. Design/methodology/approach – Data on 26 banks from 2004 to 2011 is used to estimate technical and cost-efficiency … scores by the data envelopment analysis while the Boone indicator is employed to proxy for competition. Controlling for bank …

the panel data estimation support the hypothesis that banking sector competition impacts positively on economic growth …. Practical implications The paper recommends for more policy geared towards enhancing bank competition. This is because … the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to test the link between bank competition and economic growth in a cross …

, panel unit root test, granger test and generalized method of moments) based on the data covering China, India, Russia …

Lenin′s dream has come to an end, but Chinese practice has proved the contrary conclusion. High efficiency is characteristic …

. Cost efficiency declined while profit efficiency improved after China’s accession. Security investments positively drove …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO …) in January 2002 on the efficiency levels, efficiency components (technological change and scale economy), and efficiency …

bank productivity. The TE score is disintegrated into pure technical efficiency (PTE) and scale efficiency (SE) to examine …-by-year productivity. Lastly, regression analysis examines how bank characteristics and ownership structure affect productivity efficiency …Purpose – The last decade witnessed the reform of China's financial sector, during which Chinese commercial banks …

and earning assets. Practical implications Bank regulators and supervisors in China should consider establishing policies …Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the operational efficiency and effects of market concentration and … diversification on the efficiency of Chinese and Indian banks in the 1997-2011 period. Design/methodology/approach This study employs …

capitalization of Chinese banks from 2002 to 2007, a period following China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Design …/methodology/approach – The evidence rejects a hypothesis that the four categories of banks operating in China – the Big Four, Majority State …