Banks play important roles in promoting national development. In order to provide efficient services and to perform their statutory roles effectively, banks are required to comply with established standards. In Nigeria, the Statement of Accounting Standards (SAS), Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directives and regulations provide guidelines to banks in ...

This study examines the technical efficiency and productivity of domestic and foreign commercial banks in Malaysia 1994-2000. We find that foreign banks have a higher efficiency level than domestic banks, and that efficient banks are characterised by size but not profitability or loan quality. The main source of productivity growth is technical change rather than improvement in efficiency. The ...

March 2011 Abstract: We investigate whether the relationship between competition and stability varies across different bank types for Japanese banks during the period 2000-2009. In general we find that stability varies across bank types, in that banks with a regional focus (Regional, Tier 2 Regional, Shinkin and Credit Cooperative banks) are found to be more stable on average than nationwide (C...

The study employs data envelopment analysis to a panel of commercial banks operating in Pakistan for a period 2001 – 2008 in order to measure the technical efficiency of banks. Technical efficiency is then broken down into pure technical and scale components. We divide banks into three categories for analytical purposes: state owned banks, domestic private banks and foreign owned banks. We find...

In the paper an attempt was made to study the performance of Indian Banks with the help of CAMEL rating system, taking eighteen banks (eight being Private Sector Banks and ten being Public Sector Banks) over the period of ten years from (2004 to 2013) and then finding out their efficiency of banks with the help of DEA in terms of gaining confidence from investors and ranking them accordingly. O...

This study estimates cost efficiency, scale economies, technological progress and productivity growth for Indonesian banks over the period 1993-2000. Overall the cost efficiency of all banks during this period was 69.82%. However, on average the efficiency of banks prior to the Asian crisis and after the Asian crisis were 79.67% and 53.40% respectively. Moreover, the results also indicate that ...

The banking sectors in several Central and Eastern European countries are characterized by a two-tier structure, in which a few large banks dominate the deposit market but are very inactive in the loan market with private borrowers, while many small banks engage in lending but have only small shares of the deposit market. The large banks act as net lenders in the interbank market, while small b...

the present research was carried out on the comparative study of social capital in kerman city public banks. the present research method is descriptive and survey, and data collection tool is a questionnaire. therefore, from among public banks, four banks (melli, mellat, refah and tejarat) were randomly selected. three tests of one-way anova, scheffe, and one –sample t-test was used to analyze ...