Financial liberalization and bank efficiency: Evidence from post-war Lebanon

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 931-946

  Turk Ariss, Rima ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMPETITIVENESS; DEREGULATION; FISCAL REFORM; LIBERALIZATION; POST-WAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 45949100295     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100701335408     Document Type: Article

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