banks) and cost efficiency using data covering the period 2009 to 2017 from the Ghanaian banking industry. The study adopts … conditional distribution of bank welfare performance rather than just the conditional mean effect of cost efficiency …. The results indicate a positive relationship between banks' welfare performance and cost efficiency, which suggests that …

innovatively uses Boone indicator to test the competition in different banking markets namely deposit market, loan market and non … bank profitability. The results show that cost efficiency, profit efficiency and liquidity risk are significantly related …The current paper contributes to the empirical literature in bank profitability by being the first piece of research …

pt. I. Background -- pt. II. Theoretical framework -- pt. III. Trends in banking -- pt. IV. Empirical results -- pt. V …

transparency) is positively associated with firm-level operational efficiency and access to external financing. Several cross … better-developed capital markets that facilitate capital allocation and production efficiency. Additional analyses using the … World Bank-supported Open Government Data initiative as a staggered shock to government transparency provides further …