The present paper measured overall technical efficiency of Islamic banks operating in the MENA region during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 to address the question what are the levels of overall, pure technical and scale efficiency of Islamic banks operating in the MENA region and how they...

This paper measures and analyzes the technical efficiency of Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the period 2007–2012. To do this, the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach was employed in order to provide a robust estimation of the overall...

This study examines the effect of financial sector reform on bank performance in selected Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries in the period 1993-2006. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and we employ a...