...Sony Kuriakose; Justin Paul Purpose – Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions indicates one of the major outcomes of the financial transformation process and contemporary trend in the Indian banking sector. Literature suggests that the pre-merger financials of banks are crucial in deciding...

...Fadzlan Sufian; Razali Haron Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector. The technique used by Oliveira and Tabak is extended by employing market data as input and output variables to individual bank stocks, which are listed on the Kuala Lumpur...

...Simeon Papadopoulos This paper explores the issue of efficiency in European banking. It tries to distinguish among the market‐structure and efficient‐structure hypotheses by incorporating into our empirical analysis measures of X‐efficiency and scale‐efficiency. Tests of the four hypotheses...