Market power versus efficient-structure in Arab GCC banking

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1487-1496

  Al Muharrami, Saeed ^a   Matthews, Kent ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SERVICE SECTOR; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70349578819     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100902845478     Document Type: Article

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