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The Impact of Financial Liberalization on Bank Efficiency: Evidence from Latin America and Asia
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Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on bank efficiency, using data for a sample of over 4,000 bank-year observations from ten emerging economies for the period 1991-2000. We use Data Envelop Analysis (DEA) to calculate bank efficiency at the individual bank level. Bank eff... view more
This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on bank efficiency, using data for a sample of over 4,000 bank-year observations from ten emerging economies for the period 1991-2000. We use Data Envelop Analysis (DEA) to calculate bank efficiency at the individual bank level. Bank efficiency measures are then aggregated at the country level to investigate the relationship between financial liberalization and bank efficiency, using a panel least square fixed-effects model. Overall, we find strong support for the positive impact of financial liberalization programmes on bank efficiency.... view less
Classification
Economic Sectors
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 3351-3365
Journal
Applied Economics, 42 (2008) 26
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840802112448
ISSN
1466-4283
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)