This study presents a citation‐based systematic literature review on banking sector
performance, particularly in terms of profitability, productivity, and efficiency. Specifically, the …

Microfinance has played a key role in the fight against exclusion and the promotion of
entrepreneurship in developing countries. An important question today is how to increase …

We show that the large elasticity of substitution between capital and labor estimated in the
literature on average, 0.9, can be explained by three issues: publication bias, use of cross …

A key theoretical prediction in financial economics is that under risk neutrality and rational
expectations a currency's forward rates should form unbiased predictors of future spot rates …

A key parameter estimated by lab and field experiments in economics is the individual
discount rate—and the results vary widely. We examine the extent to which this variance can …

We examine whether estimates of hedge fund performance reported in prior empirical
research are affected by publication bias. Using a sample of 1019 intercept terms from …

This contribution is the first attempt to systematically review all empirical surveys that so far
have been made available in the broad field of efficiency and productivity analysis using …

South Africas financial sector is believed to have weathered the contagion and catastrophic
effects of the 2008 worldwide financial crisis partly on account of a sound regulatory …

This study reviews the empirical literature on banking efficiency by conducting a meta‐
regression analysis. The meta‐dataset consists of 1661 observations retrieved from 120 …

This study estimates bank efficiencies and their determinants for a sample of 11 Central and
Eastern European Countries (CEEC) over the 2005-2008 period. Contrary to previous …