Purpose: This paper aims to examine the impact of capital regulation, ownership structure and the degree of ownership concentration on the risk of commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a sample of 565 commercial banks from 52 countries over the period of 2011-2015. A...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the impact of economic freedom on the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector. Design/methodology/approach - The analysis is confined into two stages. In the first stage, the bias-corrected data envelopment analysis method is used to compute the...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the impact of economic freedom on the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is confined into two stages. In the first stage, the bias-corrected data envelopment analysis method is used to compute the...