This study investigates the evolution of banking efficiency of post-communist new EU member countries over a time span … whether significant efficiency improvements were achieved in their banking systems. Adopting the approach by Sickles (2005 … transition banking. In addition, we analyse the impact of several macroeconomic, banking sector specific and bank specific …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …

estimating both an interacted panel VAR (IPVAR) model using macroeconomic data and a single-equation model with bank …-level European banking data. The findings of these two empirical approaches highlight that an exogenous deviation of actual GDP from … potential GDP leads to greater credit fluctuation in economies where:(i) competition among banks and,(ii) competition from non-bank …

under which globalization factors foster technology efficiency. In this paper, we extend the MSS model by combining panel … threshold regression technique advanced by Hansen (1999). This threshold stochastic frontier panel data model enables us to … technical efficiency has monotonically decreased for low income countries, supporting the so-called club convergence hypothesis …

This paper investigated the effect of banking regulations and supervision on the profitability and risk profile of … countries, namely South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Tunisia, Egypt, Namibia, Zambia, Nigeria and Ghana, as representative of the … continent. It includes data from some of the major economies in the continent such as South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt to ensure …

2007-2008 global financial crisis, can draw from Islamic banking principles. …