The study measures the level of Productivity and Efficiency in the Ghanaian Banking sector over a 10 years period from 1997 to 2006 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Various assumptions of DEA and SFA are modeled for comparison. The difference between...

The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...

The current focus of financial policy measures in nearly all G20 countries is to rescue commercial banks by running high bail-out programs. If banks can be bailed-out, or rescued from their present plight, everything will be getting better - that is, by large, the self-proclaimed belief, or...