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An insight into the size efficiency of a UK bank branch network

Drake, Leigh; Howcroft, Barry - In: Managerial Finance 28 (2002) 9, pp. 24-36

Outlines previous research on the efficiency of financial institutions and builds on an earlier study of the relative … efficiency of 190 UK bank branches by the authors to determine their size efficiency relationship and their determinants of … summarizes the results of the previous study. Shows that size is related to efficiency and suggests that the pattern is an …

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Financial buyers in Takeovers: focus on cost efficiency

Frydman, Halina; Frydman, Roman; Trimbath, Susanne - In: Managerial Finance 28 (2002) 12, pp. 1-13

application of the methodology developed in Trimbath, Frydman and Frydman (2001). In order to illustrate efficiency enhancements … that their aggressive programs of cost management substantially improved the efficiency of General Instrument. Moreover, it …

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Financial market liberalization and stock market efficiency: the case of Greece

Laopodis, Nikiforos T. - In: Managerial Finance 29 (2003) 4, pp. 24-41

of structural change to several efficiency tests, suggest that the Greek equity market was weak‐form efficient before …

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Random‐walk and efficiency tests of Central European equity markets

Gilmore, Claire G.; McManus, Ginette M. - In: Managerial Finance 29 (2003) 4, pp. 42-61

The existence of weak‐form efficiency in the equity markets of the three main Central European transition economies … constitutes evidence for weakform efficiency. This differs in some cases from studies using data for the initial years of these …

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Investigating bank structure of an open petroleum economy: the case of Saudi Arabia

Essayyad, Musa; Madani, Haider - In: Managerial Finance 29 (2003) 11, pp. 73-92

This article investigates concentration, efficiency, and profitability of commercial banks operating in Saudi Arabia … concentration, efficiency, and profitability. The significance of the study stems from the conventional premise that highly …

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Bank branch efficiency evaluation by means of least absolute deviations and DEA

Tsolas, Ioannis E.; Giokas, Dimitris I. - In: Managerial Finance 38 (2012) 8, pp. 768-785

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of individual branches of a large Greek bank through … conceptual (parametric functional form‐loglinear) models: one focusing on transaction and one on production efficiency. The DEA … assessment using the transaction efficiency model is performed under the specifications of constant or variable returns to scale …

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Stock return seasonalities in low‐income African emerging markets

Felix Ayadi, O.; Dufrene, Uric B.; Chatterjee, Amitava - In: Managerial Finance 24 (1998) 3, pp. 22-33

Surveys African stock markets to find out if they are as efficient as developed markets, and follow the same “turn‐of‐the‐year” pattern as other markets. Compares Ghana, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, and focuses on the period between 1985 and 1995. Describes the environment of each, and...

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The Bombay Stock Exchange: seasonalities and investment opportunities

Ignatius, Roger - In: Managerial Finance 24 (1998) 3, pp. 52-61

Investigates whether the Bombay Stock Exchange behaves like an efficient market, or whether it displays a typical seasonal pattern. Takes mean daily returns between 1979 and 1990 to discover by regression that there is a December effect. Considers whether this is because of holidays, broker...

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Price discovery in German stock and futures markets

Paul Broussard, John; Geoffrey Booth, G.; Loistl, Otto - In: Managerial Finance 24 (1998) 4, pp. 3-18

Compares the trading efficiency of electronic and open outcry futures markets. Argues that the difference between the …

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The risk-capital-efficiency trilogy

Louati, Salma; Louhichi, Awatef; Boujelbene, Younes - In: Managerial Finance 42 (2016) 12, pp. 1226-1252

and compare the risk-capital-efficiency interconnection. Design/methodology/approach Based on the triple square model (3 …, simultaneously, a rather shaken stability. Concerning Islamic banks, cost efficiency has proven to have a negative and significant … effect on NPLs. However, the capital, technical efficiency, competitiveness and macroeconomic factors turn out to have a …

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