depth, access and efficiency during 2014-2018 based on 24 indicators. This paper starts with the examination of the role of … study period compared to its most ASEAN and GCC countries. The efficiency of banking sector, on an average, remained at a … sector development through enhancing depth and efficiency of the banking sector and the development of efficient bond and …

and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly …

this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the …

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 …

Does political connection affect bank efficiency during both financial and political crises? This study addresses this …, thus supporting the bailout theory. We also find that political connections influenced the efficiency of banks during the …

this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the …

landscape. This research aims to evaluate the efficiency of converting sustainable development outcomes, quantified through ESG …. The results reveal that only one financial institution has an efficiency score of 1, signifying a notable efficiency level …. Most financial institutions in the dataset possess efficiency scores (represented by theta) below 0.1, indicating a …

achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …