Efficiency of Qatari banking industry: an empirical investigation

• Main Authors: Abdul-Hamid, Abdul Wahab, Haron, Razali
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2017
• Subjects: HG Finance; HG4001 Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance.
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/51438/1/51438_Efficiency%20of%20Qatari%20_article.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/51438/2/51438_Efficiency%20of%20Qatari%20_WOS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/51438/3/51438_Efficiency%20of%20Qatari%20_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/51438/; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/ijbm

This paper examines the efficiency of the banking sector in Qatar. The paper utilizes 15 banks comprising Islamic, conventional and foreign banks for the duration of 2007 to 2011.Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is applied to compute technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scal...