This study aims to compare the Islamic and conventional banks' efficiency before and after global financial crisis. Furthermore, it also examines factors affecting the efficiency. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this study finds that conventional banks are more efficient than those of...

Recently international organizations as e.g. the International Monetary Fund or the GATT have increasingly been criticized particularly by developing countries. Even the creation of a kind of super-UNCTAD is under discussion. Other institutions are also subjected to increasing pressure to...