This paper examines the nexus between cost efficiency and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region …. We apply a causality analysis between cost efficiency and financial deepening using the Generalized Methods of Moments …' efficiency and the increase of regulation to spur a more stable financial system and foster financial deepening in the future …

economically significant effect of higher mean cost efficiency for economic growth, suggesting that the interaction between better … effects of deepening capital markets are only significant beyond a certain efficiency threshold of approximately 70 percent …

This paper examines the various sources of finance in promoting growth in post-reform China …

This paper provides the first comparative analysis of different types of publicly owned banks operating in China … between 1997 and 2008. Using principal component analysis and Granger-causality tests, this study shows that China's state … commercial banks did promote domestic growth. China's experience presents a more nuanced picture of state banking that goes …

efficiency. This paper argues that the actual experience does seem to indicate that, hitherto, the gains in productive efficiency … have more than compensated for the losses in allocative efficiency. This judgement helps to make sense of the Chinese …

focused on the development of bank efficiency and profitability over time. The equally important question - which of China …China’s banking sector is dominated by four distinct organizational forms: policy banks (PBs), state-owned commercial …

This paper provides the first comparative analysis of different types of publicly owned banks operating in China … between 1997 and 2008. Using principal component analysis and Granger-causality tests, this study shows that China’s state … commercial banks did promote domestic growth. China’s experience presents a more nuanced picture of state banking that goes …