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Other authors / contributors: | Manole, Vlad.
International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Department.
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Notes: | "June 2005." Includes bibliographical references. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2014 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | Bahrain's financial sector development strategy succeeded in building a leading regional banking center, which has become one of the main engines of growth and sources of employment. Although the simulations conducted in the paper suggest that the banking sector in Bahrain continues to occupy a front-runner position among those in a sample of member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, they also reveal that: (i) as expected, banks in Bahrain still lag behind their Singaporean counterparts, and (ii) there is strong competition from other countries in the region. The paper also finds that in terms of scale efficiency, the banks in Bahrain operate at the same level as banks in Singapore and their closest competitors in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The results appear to be robust with respect to changes in the sample size and model specifications.
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Other form: | Print version: Grigorian, David A. Cross-country nonparametric analysis of Bahrain's banking system. [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Middle East and Central Asia Dept., 2005
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