This paper investigates the efficiency level of the Syrian private banks during the period 2006 to 2009 by using Data … Envelopment Analysis. A total of 10 banks were evaluated by using four models to analyze the relative efficiency of each bank … efficiency frontier. Furthermore, this study has investigated the effects of banks age on their relative efficiency, where it had …

This study aims at measuring and analyzing the efficiency of conventional banks operating in Palestine as applied on a …) models.Results indicate that there are insignificant differences in the average scores of efficiency according to the bank …

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 …