We examine the effect of competition on banking stability using a new measure of competition based on the reallocation … competition is greater for healthy banks than for fragile ones. Our results suggest that efficiency is the conduit through which …

The paper examines how the type of ownership affects the profit efficiency of Russian banks. Using bank-quarter data … intermediary approach to assess profit efficiency. Our key findings show that foreign-owned banks are the most efficient, followed … by state-owned banks and private domestic banks. We also find that the profit efficiency of foreign-owned banks was …

This paper examines the nexus between cost efficiency and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region …. We apply a causality analysis between cost efficiency and financial deepening using the Generalized Methods of Moments … banking productivity. We introduce a set of control variables associated with the long run growth and find an interesting …

There is little consensus regarding the overall performance of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry. The … goal of this paper is to investigate the change in operating performance, efficiency, and value addition of US bank mergers … adjusted performance more than product focused mergers. The efficiency or profitability of targets have either a positive or no …

The stochastic frontier analysis is employed to investigate efficiency of publicly listed Australian banks over the … period 1985-2008. The results suggest that technical, cost and profit efficiency of Australian banks have improved over our … sample span. Large banks have attained a higher level of cost efficiency but lower level of technical efficiency compared to …

efficiency differences. To improve banking sector efficiency, policies should be aimed at giving banks incentives to improve … African (MENA) countries in the period 1993-2006. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia by means … of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and we employ a meta-frontier approach to calculate efficiency scores in a cross …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …. Overall, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) attained by banks prior to the current …

efficiency, while banking reforms had an adverse effect. The Treaty of Accession and EU membership were associated with …The paper examines the efficiency of Bulgarian banks and its determinants over the period 1999-2007. The levels of … technical, allocative, and cost efficiency are first estimated using a nonparametric methodology and then regressed upon a …

economically significant effect of higher mean cost efficiency for economic growth, suggesting that the interaction between better … banking and deeper capital markets is indeed most beneficial. However, conditional marginal effects imply that the positive … effects of deepening capital markets are only significant beyond a certain efficiency threshold of approximately 70 percent …

compare the two bank types on the basis of cost efficiency. We decompose cost efficiency into a persistent and a residual … estimates show community banks to exhibit a 4.9% higher efficiency compared to their non-community counterparts. The … regulatory front. Size is non-linearly related to efficiency and large community banks are the most efficient. A strong positive …