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Microfinance efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary Union: have reforms promoted sustainability or outreach?
KABLAN, Sandrine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary … outreach. For this purpose, we use a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the social efficiency on the one hand and the … financial efficiency on the other hand. Our results show that sustainability prevails. Indeed, we observe an increase in …
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Cost and profit efficiency of french commercial banks
Béjaoui Rouissi, Raoudha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
foreign banks over the period 2000-2007. We show that foreign banks exhibit higher cost and profit efficiency than domestic … the profit efficiency scores, suggests that foreign banks are better managed in terms of profit efficiency mainly due to … higher cost efficiency. On the other side, profit efficiency of domestic banks, was due to higher revenue efficiency. This …
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Performance of islamic banks across the world: an empirical analysis over the period 2001-2008
Kablan, Sandrine; Yousfi, Ouidad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Our study aims at analyzing Islamic bank efficiency over the period 2001-2008. We found that they were efficient at 92 …%. The level of efficiency could however vary according to the region where they operate. Asia displays the highest score … efficiency scores superior to the average. The subprime crisis seems to have impacted those banks indirectly. And market power …
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Information and Communication Technology and Bank Performance in Nigeria: A Panel Data Analysis
Ibrahim, Sani; Saifullahi, Mr.; Muhammad, Mr. Abubakar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study examines the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on banks performance in Nigeria using annual panel data set over 2001 to 2011 periods. The data was analysed using panel unit root, panel cointegration, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and Generalised...
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Access to credit for Italian firms: new evidence from the ISTAT confidence business surveys
Costa, Stefano; Malgarini, Marco; Margani, Patrizia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper aims at investigating on the credit conditions experienced by Italian firms during the recent business cycle. In doing so, we use a novel dataset on firms’ opinions derived from the ISTAT Business Confidence surveys. The dataset allows us to add to existing literature in three...
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What lies behind the “too-small-to-survive” banks?
Grammatikos, Theoharry; Papanikolaou, Nikolaos I. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
It is a common place that during financial crises, like the one started in 2007, authorities provide substantial financial support to some problem banks, whilst at the same time let several others to go bankrupt. Is this happening because some particular banks are considered important and big...
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Regulation Policy And Credit Crunch: Evidence From Japan
Guizani, Brahim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims to answer the following question: what is (are) the cause(s) of the severe reduction in bank credits in Japan between 1999 and 2005? The answer to this question becomes very interesting if we know that during the above mentioned period an ultra–expansionary monetary policy has...
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Depositor discipline in Indian banking: Separating facts from folklore
Ghosh, Saibal; Das, Abhiman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper traces the determinants of depositor discipline in Indian banking. Using data for the period 1997:1 to 2002:4, the findings reveal that, while bank-specific factors are dominant in case of state-owned banks, systemic variables tend to overwhelm bank-specific factors in explaining...
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Determinants of International Bank Lending from the Developed World to East Asia
Siregar, Reza Yamora; Choy, KM - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The reversal of capital flows from the banking sector, rather than portfolio equity investment, has long been considered a main reason for the severity of the East Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. This study analyzes the factors behind the boom and bust of bank lending, focusing on...
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Impact of Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona on health, education and women empowerment
Kundu, Amit; Mukherjee, Arghya Kusum - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona (SGSY), a government sponsored micro credit programme of India, has been designed to ameliorate income poverty among the rural poor, particularly women, through human capital development and strengthening female agency. In this backdrop the basic objectives...
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