“…Interestingly, studies have examined banking industry efficiency through the lens of technical efficiency (e.g., Horvatova, 2018;Saha, Ahmad, & Dash, 2015;Moradi-Motlagh & Saleh, 2014;Banker, Chang & Lee, 2010;Casu & Giradone, 2006), and cost and allocative efficiencies (e.g., Kasman & Carvallo, 2013;Akeem & Moses, 2014;Kumar, 2013;Feng & Serletis, 2009;Hartman, Storbeck, Byrnes, 2001). In addition, the industry has been examined in single country studies (e.g., Ding & Sickles, 2018;Hassan & Jreisat, 2016, Vu & Turnell, 2011, cross-country studies (e.g., Rekik & Kalai, 2018;Banerjee, 2013;Kasman & Carvallo, 2013), and under approaches that include ratio analysis (e.g., Klaassen, & van Eeghen, 2015;Kumbirai & Webb, 2010) and frontier analysis (e.g., Moradi-Motlagh, Valadkhani, & Saleh, 2015;Weill, 2004;Berger & Humphrey, 1997). Typically, ratio analysis studies assess profitability, liquidity, solvency, and leverage ratios, declaring improvements in these ratios over time as indicative of good performance (Kumbirai & Webb, 2010).…”