, may widen the efficiency gap between the two bank types, at the expense of Islamic banks. Furthermore, our findings … suggest that the efficiency of conventional banks not only depends on bank capital and liquidity, but also on the level of … bank efficiency while the relationship is inconclusive for Islamic banks. These findings provide insight into how capital …

further split the samples of countries on the basis of the median levels of lending and the deposit rate spread, foreign bank …

banks seen worldwide. In this study, we focus on the negative side of bank size which relates to monitoring costs. In … particular, we show that the relationship between size and bank's market to book value of assets is contained by the cost of the … manager to directly monitor the borrowers and by the (delegation) cost of the owner to monitor the bank manager. Using a …

individual bank's productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. We relate these measures to bank market values and find … that variation in deposit productivity explains the majority of cross-sectional variation in bank value. We show that …

dependence in the bank cost efficiency rankings constructed with the revaluations being kept or dropped. We relate this … show that the revaluations are positively associated with (corporate) bank lending. We then find that keeping the … revaluations when estimating bank cost efficiency leads to a misleading conclusion that the credit market is inefficient; we show …

and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving …