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

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 …

’ ownership and operation had been significantly changed in order to improve efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to … investigates whether these banks have improved their productivity efficiency during their rapid expansion and growth in the post … efficiency of Chinese commercial banks during 2004-2011. First, the technical efficiency (TE) score is constructed to evaluate …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of Korean insurers that have adopted enterprise … resource planning (ERP) system to improve their efficiency. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA) with several inputs and outputs to measure both technical and scale efficiency. With the efficiency measures and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelationships among default risk, capital and efficiency of … efficiency levels and trends of individual banks. This paper then used a model of seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE …) to examine the interrelationships among default risk, capital and efficiency. Findings – This study found a two …

efficiency of Ghanaian banks within the universal banking era. Design/methodology/approach – The stochastic frontier analysis … (SFA) technique is employed on annual data of 26 Ghanaian banks from 2003 to 2011 to estimate cost and profit efficiency … diversification into non-interest generating activities on estimated cost and profit efficiency scores while controlling for other …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the operational efficiency and effects of market concentration and … diversification on the efficiency of Chinese and Indian banks in the 1997-2011 period. Design/methodology/approach This study employs … the two-stage bootstrap procedure of Simar and Wilson (2007) to obtain valid inferences on the efficiency scores and the …

” employees and line managers to square the circle of increased competition, improved efficiency/productivity and financial …