The objective of this study is to measure the efficiency levels of major Australian banks and some regional banks before, during and after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) by examining their pure technical and scale efficiencies obtained from the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The...

Purpose Facing budgetary challenges, successive Australian Governments have chosen to proportionally reduce public expenditure on universities relative to levels of activity in both teaching and research. The question asked in this paper is whether Australia’s universities increased their...

Islamic banking in Jordan started around two decades ago. Since then it has played an important role in financing and contributing to different economics and social sectors in the country in compliance with the principles of Shariah rules in Islamic banking practices. Since there have been...