This article evaluates the performance of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking industry in the context of the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) hypothesis in the period 1993 to 2002. This article uses panel estimation differentiating between bank fixed effects and country fixed...

The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) with bootstrap among Jamaican...

Trends in domestic and international banking -- Financial intermediation : the impact of the capital market -- Banks and financial intermediation -- Banking typology -- International banking -- The theory of the banking firm -- Models of banking behaviour -- Credit rationing -- Securitization --...