Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to empirically analyze the efficiency of the Thailand banking sector during the period of 1999‐2008. Design/methodology/approach – The efficiency estimates of individual banks are evaluated by using the data envelopment analysis approach. The...

Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of consolidation on Malaysian banking sector's market structure and competition. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the Panzar‐Rosse (P‐R) method to compute the H‐statistics of the Malaysian banking...

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...

This paper examines the efficiency of the Thai banking sector from 1999 to 2008 by using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. The results indicate that inefficiency in the sector stems mainly from scale rather than pure technical efficiencies. The findings suggest that small banks are...

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...

The paper provides for the first time empirical evidence on the impact of economic globalization on the performance of banks operating in the Chinese banking sector. The empirical findings from this study suggest that the well capitalized banks tend to be more profitable, while expense...

Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to empirically analyze the efficiency of the Thailand banking sector during the period of 1999-2008. Design/methodology/approach – The efficiency estimates of individual banks are evaluated by using the data envelopment analysis approach. The...