Using a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) method, this paper investigates the investment allocation choices of foreign investors and how the foreign ownership and corporate operational efficiency play roles in Taiwan market with more financial liberalization. Empirical results...

This study has been carried out with the aim to investigate the impact of the bank specific variables: Asset size, Credit Risk , Total deposits to total assets ratio, and macroeconomic indicator : interest rate( Discount rate) on the profitability measures, ROE and ROA of commercial banks in...

Three decades ago, ports were generally regarded as homogeneous entities that competed with each other at different operational levels. In the course of the 1990s, however, the “port product” increasingly came to be seen as a set of interlinking functions, with the port as such serving as...

This paper principally aims at examining the impact of capital requirements regulation on bank operating efficiency in Tanzania. The study employs bank level data for the period between 2009 and 2015. The findings show a positive and significant relationship between capital ratio and bank...

Our goal in this paper is to answer this research question: Do investors understand the longer-term value-implications of cross border mergers and acquisitions, as at the time of their announcements? We examine acquirers' operating efficiencies around and after cross-border acquisitions and...

This paper examines factors affecting operating efficiency of 36 commercial banks in Tanzania for the period between 2000 and 2017. The paper employs robust random-effect regression model to estimate the relationship between bank operating efficiency and its determinants. The results show that...

The paper examines the interaction between risk, capital and operating efficiency in a simultaneous equation setting. Using data on Indian state-owned banks for 1993-2000, the analysis finds these variables to be intertwined, with each reinforcing the other, although the results differ across...

The global financial and economic crisis put the banking sector to the test in countries all over the world. The negative impact of the crisis transferred itself also into the real economy, and thence onto the commercial portfolios of banks. Bulgarian banks, being part of this globa system,...

This study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to benchmark the performance of 13 thrifts and mortgage finance companies against one another for the period 2008 to 2011. We cover the period of start of the economic crisis and the consequent passing of new law to regulate the financial...