The purpose of this paper to evaluate the cost of deposit insurance premium and assess moral hazard behavior in the banking sector in Sudan. The analysis of moral hazard in this paper is based on two types of risks, credit risk, and technical efficiency risk (managerial efficiency). The findings...

The purpose of this paper is to assess competitive advantage gained by large-sized banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. To investigate the association between return to scale and profitability, the authors have adopted quintile and logistic regression analysis, using data for...

This paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and bootstrap simulation to investigate the influence of some key financial ratios on technical efficiency performance of banks operating in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Our results indicate that the fall in technical efficiency of...

To measure technical efficiency of commercial banks in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria we employed in this paper Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based on the intermediation approach of banking services, which entails banks produce financial services using inputs. On regional level our results show...