Competitive behavior in Middle East and North Africa banking systems

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 693-710

  Turk Ariss, Rima ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Competition; Contestability; Market structure; MENA countries; Panzar and Rosse methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 64649092616     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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