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SME's lending and Islamic finance. Is it a "win-win" situation? (2016)
Journal Article
Shaban, M., Duygun, M., & Fry, J. (2016). SME's lending and Islamic finance. Is it a "win-win" situation?. Economic modelling, 55, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2016.01.029

Information asymmetry is a common feature that hinders lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the last decade, the growth in Islamic banks lending to SMEs was overwhelming to the extent that it prompted practitioners to regard this as a “... Read More about SME's lending and Islamic finance. Is it a "win-win" situation?.

Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: a network data envelopment analysis approach (2015)
Journal Article
Duygun, M., Prior, D., Shaban, M., & Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2016). Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: a network data envelopment analysis approach. Omega, 60, 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2015.06.004

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. In recent years the European airline industry has undergone critical restructuring. It has evolved from a highly regulated market predominantly operated by national airlines to a dynamic, liberalized industry where airline firms... Read More about Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: a network data envelopment analysis approach.

How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks' productivity: an application to emerging economies (2015)
Journal Article
Duygun, M., Shaban, M., Sickles, R. C., & Weyman-Jones, T. (2015). How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks' productivity: an application to emerging economies. Journal of productivity analysis, 44(3), 237-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-015-0451-1

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper presents a novel approach to measure efficiency and productivity decomposition in the banking systems of emerging economies with a special focus on the role of equity capital. We model the... Read More about How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks' productivity: an application to emerging economies.

Measuring competition using the Boone relative profit difference indicator (2015)
Journal Article
Duygun, M., Shaban, M., & Weyman-Jones, T. (2015). Measuring competition using the Boone relative profit difference indicator. Economics letters, 132, 117-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.022

This paper suggests a method for implementing the theoretical relative profit difference test for intensity of competition due to Boone (2008). An empirical illustration is given for banking systems in emerging economies.