Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a new empirical evidence on the impact of economic globalization on the efficiency of the banking sector. The paper also investigates to what extent the internal (i.e. bank specific characteristics) and external (i.e. macroeconomic conditions)...

Purpose – To examine the relative efficiency between the domestic and foreign banks Islamic banking operations in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilises the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology, which allows for the decomposition of technical efficiency into its...

Purpose This paper aims to provide empirical evidence for the impact globalization has had on the performance of the banking sector in South Africa. In addition, this study also investigates bank-specific characteristics and macroeconomic conditions that may influence the performance of the...