What can we learn about Islamic banks efficiency under the subprime crisis? Evidence from GCC Region

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-92

  Belanès, Amel ^a   Ftiti, Zied ^b   Regaïeg, Rym ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Paris School of Business   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

DEA; G20; G21; Islamic banks; Overall technical efficiency; Pure technical efficiency; Scale efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937893306     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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