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...

This paper investigates the role of the banking system in the economic transition process. This is considered in the context of an overlapping generation model with endogenous growth. There are two production technologies, one for the production of a final good and the other for the production...

In this essay we develop a stylized model to investigate the role of external financial liberalization in the development process of a small economy. Firstly, we show that there exists an economic development threshold under which the capital account liberalization can not occur. Secondly, we...

This paper presents a novel approach to measure and compare the efficiency of the banking system in several countries and stages of development using the non-parametric mathematic methodology Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Thus, we expect to broaden the range of studies about banking...

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 research examines the effects of bank reforms and regulatory controls recently enacted by emerging economies on cost efficiency of banks. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) is applied to the cases of Turkey and Egypt since both of these emerging markets adopted similar bank reforms...

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...

The aim of this study is to analyze the influence that the European integrationprocess has had over the banking efficiency levels in those countries which have recentlyexperienced more intensely the European integration process. For this purpose we haveanalyzed, using stochastic frontier models...

This study analyses the efficiency of the Turkish bank system over the period 2000-2005. The estimation showed that inefficiency decreases over the period under consideration and the analysis unambiguously indicates that the Turkish banking system has a large potential for improvement. The state...