@article{Mohammad Alsharif_2020, title={Banks Efficiency, Ownership Type and Listing Status in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Cross-Countries Analysis}, volume={29}, url={http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/14410}, abstractNote={<p>Using data from 2005-2013, this paper analyzes banks efficiency across the GCC countries.<br>This study examines the efficiency of GCC conventional and Islamic banks across the GCC<br>countries while considering the impact of ownership type and listing status on banks efficiency<br>by employing the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a second stage Tobit regression<br>analysis with bootstrapping. It is found that GCC conventional banks are by far more efficient<br>than GCC Islamic banks and this conclusion holds across all GCC countries. It is also found that<br>GCC state-owned banks outperform the GCC private-owned banks in general and across all<br>GCC countries; and interestingly, GCC listed banks were less efficient than GCC unlisted banks.<br>More, the main source of inefficiency in GCC banks was the scale inefficiency and GCC banks<br>exhibited a decreasing return to scale. Therefore, GCC policymakers and regulators should not<br>support any expansionary strategy in their banking industry.</p&gt;}, number={10s}, journal={International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology}, author={Mohammad Alsharif}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={228 - 241} }