the trend of gender diversity without proper evaluation of executives’ skills could damage bank efficiency. Finally, this …

Utilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this study conducts a comparative analysis of profit efficiency and cost … impact of environmental factors on the efficiency of commercial banks. The key findings of this empirical analysis suggest … that foreign banks tend to outperform domestic banks in terms of profit efficiency. In terms of efficiency by bank size …

conception allowing for time factor; evaluating IP efficiency by eventual reproduction results, not by intermediate investment … activity results (included is a generalized production efficiency indicator); separation of conditions / indicators adequate …

omission leads to over (under) estimate cost (profit) efficiency. Risk-taking is also found to have different effects on … efficiency of banks with different size and affiliation, and those involved in mergers and acquisitions. In particular, greater … exposures to credit and market risk are found to be key profit efficiency drivers. Likewise, lower liquidity risk and capital …

In an attempt to enrich the literature of the efficiency of financial services sector with holistic perspective, this … study aims to empirically investigate the input efficiency of banking and insurance sectors with further probe into Islamic … show that, on average, the allocative efficiency of the overall Islamic financial services sector has increased during the …

of ownership concentration and short-term bank debt on firm efficiency …

This study explores the impact of different ownership types on the efficiency of the provision of water utilities … for Italy, by proposing a methodology that combines nonparametric efficiency estimation and cluster analysis. Our main … efficiency but, when size and geographical location enter the analysis, ownership has a stronger significant effect on efficiency …

increasing the efficiency of banks. Due to the ownership, the public sector banks experienced more input losses as compared to …

risk-taking on bank efficiency and distinguishes the effects among banks with different characteristics. The model is … fitted to a 10-year sample of Colombian banks. Cost and profit efficiency are found to be over and underestimated … risk affect bank efficiency vary with size and affiliation. In particular, domestic and small Colombian banks benefit more …

efficiency. This study also reveals that ownership concentration (blockholding) has adverse effects for the profit and cost … efficiency of banks …