Measuring Efficiency of Health Systems of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samer Hamidi ◽  
Fevzi Akinci
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Measuring Efficiency

Measuring Efficiency of Islamic and Conventional Banks in MENA Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Asma Sghaier ◽  
Mahmoud Sabra ◽  
Zouhayer Mighr ◽  
Philippe Gilles
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Technical Inefficiency ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
Conventional Banks

This study aims to measure the performance and efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks in the MENA region and its determinants. The authors use for this purpose the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and the analysis of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) method for calculating the technical efficiency scores. The results reveal similar trends for both types of performance measurement. The banks category analysis revealed that conventional banks are more efficient than Islamic banks. Despite technological changes experienced by the banking system in the MENA region, the efficiency analysis shows that the technical inefficiency results from the pure technical inefficiency. Finally, the effectiveness of banks in the MENA region is sensitive to variables such as the crisis, deposits, capitalization and including especially variables related to business lines.

A meta-frontier assessment of bank efficiency in Middle East and North Africa countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihsen Abid ◽  
Mohamed Goaied
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Profit Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Frontier Analysis

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare the efficiency ratios and the technological gaps of banking industries in seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Design/methodology/approach The meta-frontier model was used to evaluate efficiency across countries that may have different production technologies. Findings The results of the meta-frontier analysis of banking systems over the period from 1991 to 2011 showed that Tunisian banks were the most efficient in terms of cost and profit. For the cost (profit) model, the analysis of the technological gap showed that Egyptian (Tunisian) banks used the most advanced technology in offering financial services to clients. The comparison of efficiencies confirmed that most efficient banks in terms of cost are not necessarily the most efficient in terms of profit and vice versa. The authors also concluded that cost efficiency analysis provides a partial view of banking efficiency and hence, profit efficiency analysis is as important. Originality/value The study is relevant for policymakers, regulators and monetary authorities and for researchers to know more about the real differences of efficiency of banks across countries in MENA region and to clarify the sources of this inefficiency to better adapt to the new environment, to make strategic decisions and to reference the performance of banking institutions.

scholarly journals Hospital Inefficiency: What is the Impact of Membership in Different Types of Systems?

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Rosko ◽  
Jose Proenca ◽  
Jacqueline S. Zinn ◽  
Gloria J. Bazzoli
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Hospital Cost ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Decentralized Systems ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cost Inefficiency ◽  
The Impact

The primary objective of this study is to assess whether systematic differences in inefficiency are associated with hospital membership in different types of systems. We employed the Battese/Coelli simultaneous stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) technique to estimate hospital cost inefficiency. Mean estimated inefficiency was 8.42%. Membership in different types of systems was related to estimated cost inefficiency (p < .05). Compared to hospitals that were members of centralized health systems, membership in centralized physician/insurance or decentralized systems was associated with decreased inefficiency; membership in independent systems was associated with increased inefficiency.

scholarly journals A Bayesian Approach for Evaluation of Determinants of Health System Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Beta Regression

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talat Şenel ◽  
Mehmet Ali Cengiz
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Beta Regression ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Healthcare Efficiency ◽  
Health Database

In today’s world, Public expenditures on health are one of the most important issues for governments. These increased expenditures are putting pressure on public budgets. Therefore, health policy makers have focused on the performance of their health systems and many countries have introduced reforms to improve the performance of their health systems. This study investigates the most important determinants of healthcare efficiency for OECD countries using second stage approach for Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis (BSFA). There are two steps in this study. First we measure 29 OECD countries’ healthcare efficiency by BSFA using the data from the OECD Health Database. At second stage, we expose the multiple relationships between the healthcare efficiency and characteristics of healthcare systems across OECD countries using Bayesian beta regression.

Transitions Within Queer North African Cinema

Screen Bodies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Temple
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
North African ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
African Cinema ◽  
Queer Cinema

In recent years, North African queer cinema has become increasingly visible both within and beyond Arabo-Orientale spaces. A number of critical factors have contributed to a global awareness of queer identities in contemporary Maghrebi cinema, including the dissemination of films through social media outlets and during international film festivals. Such tout contemporain representations of queer sexuality characterize a robust wave of films in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, inciting a new discourse on the condition of the marginalized traveler struggling to locate new forms of self and being—both at home and abroad.

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