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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Competition and Efficiency of National Banks in the United Arab Emirates

Author(s): Lawrence S. Tai

Citation: Lawrence S. Tai, (2012) "Competition and Efficiency of National Banks in the United Arab Emirates," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 13, Iss. 5, pp. 76-86

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

This paper examined the degree of competition and efficiency of publicly listed national banks in the

United Arab Emirates (UAE) between 2003 and 2011. We calculated the Lerner Index to measure the

degree of monopoly power for each bank in the loan market. In addition, we used a translog cost function

to evaluate the efficiency of the UAE banking sector. Finally, we tested the causality between competition

and efficiency and determined the direction of causality.