This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between banking efficiency and financial stability using a sample of 15 MENA countries, over the period from the 2004 to 2013. Using panel analysis according to fixed effect model, results indicate that hypotheses regarding the significance of...

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...

In this paper, we aim to explore the causal relationship among the bank efficiency, competition, and concentration in the banking systems of 15 countries in the MENA region (Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, and...

This study aims at measuring and analyzing the efficiency of conventional banks operating in Palestine as applied on a sample of 11 banks during the period 2007 to 2014 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Cost Frontier (SFA) models.Results indicate that there are insignificant...

This paper aims at analyzing the effects of bank size, age and ownership on efficiency of Egyptian banks, as measured by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) according to CCR method. This has been conducted using Wilcoxon signed rank test, as applied on a sample of 10 banks during the period from...