Financial liberalization and efficiency in Tunisian banking industry: DEA test

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 455-475

  Cook, Wade D ^a   Hababou, Moez ^a   Liang, Liang ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Banking; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Liberalization; Private banks; Public banks; State control; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746253080     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622005001684     Document Type: Review

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