IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/aer/wpaper/192.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)

Author

Listed:
  • Sandrine Kablan

    (Centre Ivoirien de Recherche en Economie et en Sociologie/Universite de Paris 10)

Abstract

This paper measures the efficiency of WAEMU banks and its determining factors, after the banking system reforms from 1993 to 1996. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used for assessing technical efficiency and a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) for cost efficiency. Results suggest similar evolutions for the two types of efficiency for all WAEMU countries except Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. A detailed analysis per banking shareholder’s equity group reveals that local private banks are the most efficient ones, followed by foreign and then state-owned banks. Despite the technological changes that occurred in the banking system, the Malmquist index shows that the increase of technical efficiency is much more a factor of scale efficiency change than of the incorporation of technological innovations. Lastly, WAEMU banks’ efficiency is sensitive to variables like financial soundness, the ratio of bad loans per country, the banking concentration and the GDP per capita.

Suggested Citation

  • Sandrine Kablan, 2009. "African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)," Working Papers 192, African Economic Research Consortium, Research Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:192
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: ftp://41.215.20.26/RePEc/aer/wpaper/RP192.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Leadaut Edith Prisca Togba, 2016. "Analysis of the Cost-Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in the West African Economic Monetary Union Area," Working Papers 324, African Economic Research Consortium, Research Department.
    2. Akhand Akhtar Hossain, 2015. "Economic Management in a Volatile Environment: Monetary and Financial Issues by Ramkishen S. Rajan and Sasidaran Gopalan Palgrave Macmillan , London , 2015 Pp. xx+283. ISBN 9 78 137 37151-5," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 29(2), pages 103-106, November.
    3. Patrick Mumo Muinde & James Mwangi Karanja, 2017. "Kenya Commercial Banks are Star Performers: Myth or Truth? Exploratory Empirical Evidence from Nairobi Securities Exchange," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 7(1), pages 340-350.
    4. Valipour Pasha, Mohammad & Biabani , Jahangir, 2016. "The Effect of Regulatory Policy on Efficiency under Prudential Framework among Listed Iranian Banks," Journal of Money and Economy, Monetary and Banking Research Institute, Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, vol. 11(2), pages 153-171, April.
    5. Kofi Adjei-Frimpong & Christopher Gan & Baiding Hu, 2014. "Cost Efficiency of Ghana's Banking Industry: A Panel Data Analysis," The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 8(2), pages 69-86.
    6. Roland Banya & Nicholas Biekpe, 2018. "Banking efficiency and its determinants in selected frontier african markets," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 51(1), pages 69-95, February.
    7. Edward Gardener & Philip Molyneux & Hoai Nguyen-Linh, 2010. "Determinants of efficiency in South East Asian banking," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(16), pages 2693-2719, July.

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:192. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joel Mathia (email available below). General contact details of provider: ftp://41.215.20.26/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.