Banks are looking for ways to close their operational performance gap. This paper proposes a new approach for the detection and analysis of process inefficiency. The benchmarking of transactions reveals insights concerning the performance of a business process and offers new opportunities for...

This paper investigates the performance comparison between conventional and Islamic banks of Pakistan. It also examines the impact of macroeconomic and corporate governance variables on the accounting performance and efficiencies of conventional and Islamic banks. For this purpose, data of...

This study aims to investigate the relative efficiency amongst Islamic banks in selected OIC member countries from 2002 to 2006, by observing performance of 25 Islamic banks in 14 countries. It employs DEA method by using intermediation approach. Additionally, regression is used to find the...

Le faible niveau moyen d’efficience des institutions bancaires habituellement trouvé dans les études empiriques a été qualifié de « boîte noire » par Berger et Mester (1997). Cette étude cherche à identifier si les caractéristiques de l’environnement de même que celles qui sont...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop information on the relative efficiency of Farm Credit System (FCS) lenders. Also the evolution of relative efficiency is examined as influenced by the biofuel boom, the financial crisis, and farm income increases. The paper aims to discuss...

This paper revisits the issue of cost efficiency in the banking sector and the role of foreign ownership in European transition economies. The novelty of our approach is that we instrument for the decision of foreign investors to acquire domestic banks. This analysis allows us to evaluate the...

We offer a simple model of herding and limits of arbitrage in retail credit markets that follows the behavioral approach of Shleifer (2000). We show why solely behavioral biases by participants in the industry could explain how a credit bubble might be fed by the banking sector. According to our...

This paper expands the banking efficiency literature by developing a banking intermediation model that captures both profit-maximising and corporate social responsibilities (CSRs) of banks. Using a dataset of 21 banks for each year 2006 to 2008, we evaluate the relative efficiency of Ghanaian...

Understanding the efficiency levels is crucial for understanding the competitive structure of a market and/or segments of a market. This study uses two artificial Neural Networks (NN) and a traditional statistical classification method to model and classify the relative efficiency of top Gulf...