Prior studies documented that foreign banks have competitive advantages compare to domestic banks, due to their superior cost efficiency, higher banking skills and used of advanced technology. Therefore, they may charge lower lending rate, and may choose borrowers from large and more transparent...

This study provides analysis of the competition in the Indonesian banking industry of publicly-listed Indonesia banks before and after financial global crisis. Applying a balanced panel data, this study also identify the effect of competition in banking industry on the efficiency of banking...

This study investigates the impact of interest rates on bank risk-taking behavior of Indonesian commercial banks, which measures by risk-weighted assets. In addition, this study also takes into account the influence of other factors such as regulation, bank-specific and macro-economy variables....

This study applies two non-parametric approaches i.e: data envelopment analysis (DEA) to investigate cost efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) indices among 118 insurance firms both life and property-casualty in Indonesia over 2006-2008. It finds that the on average, all the firms are...

This paper aims to introduce an alternative way to benchmark the efficiency of 30 Indonesian cooperatives at the provincial level from 2000 to 2006. A balanced panel data was used to determine the total factor productivity (TFP) and identify the main drivers to technical efficiency. A stochastic...

This paper reports comparative measures using both financial and production efficiency as well as factors driving performance of publicly Indonesian listed banks over 2000-2005. The motivations for this investigation are: identify performance differences of the banks before and after listing at...

This paper assesses the total factor productivity performance of Indonesia's regional government banks, using a balance panel data of 26 banks over fifteen year's periods. The main focus of this study is to judge the performance of the sample banks in terms of total factor productivity growth...

This study aims to examine the demand for micro general insurance by Indonesian who lives in the disaster-prone areas. In addition, it also examines the opportunity of insurance firms to offer such products as well as what can be done by the government as a regulator. An empirical survey was...

This study analyzes the net interest margin and its determinants of the Indonesian banks during the period of 2003-2009 using a dynamic panel data methodology. Results from the study show consistent findings with previous studies. It is found that there was high and persistence net interest...

This study analyzes the determinants of net interest margin of the Indonesian banking sector over the period of 2003-2009 using a dynamic panel data methodology. Following the basic model of Ho and Saunders (1981) and later extension by Maudos and Solis (2010), the results show consistent...