Though political and trade matters have generally received the greatest attention in ASEAN related discussions, cooperation in ASEAN banking and financial matters is increasingly cited as a major goal. A variety of regional effeorts having been made at both government and private sector levels,...

Purpose – Since there is no agreement on the consistency of their estimates, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) generate consistent bank efficiency assessments....

Purpose – Since there is no agreement on the consistency of their estimates, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) generate consistent bank efficiency assessments....

This paper investigates the association between market power and bank liquidity across 113 developed and developing countries. Using bank-level measures of market power (both a conventional and a funding-adjusted Lerner index) and Generalised Methods of Moments estimators, we find an inverse...

We examine the relations between the financial and outreach efficiency of Cambodian microfinance institutions (MFIs). Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) finds that commercially focused MFIs are no less efficient at reaching the poor than non-profit ones. Larger MFIs appear as efficient at reaching...