This paper attempts to measure the "optimality of bank financial structure", in terms of the "theory of the banking firm" under constraints of liquidity and capital adequacy. This has been conducted using Lagrange function to assess the optimal weights of assets that include cash, governmental...

Based on a group of variables and data collected during the period from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2017, the paper analyzes the determinates of Egyptian bank’s profitability, using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression model (SUR). The dependent variables are return on assets and return...

This paper aims at analyzing the profit efficiency of the Saudi banks, and testing how it could be affected by banking expansion. This has been conducted using a sample of 6 commercial banks (out of 11), and covering the period from 1998 to 2007. Profit efficiency has been measured, using the...