TY - JOUR AU - Ayadi, Ines AU - Ellouze, Abderrazak PY - 2013/03/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Market Structure and Performance of Tunisian Banks JF - International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues JA - IJEFI VL - 3 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/374 SP - 345-354 AB - <p>The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between market structure and the performance of the Tunisian banking system over the period 1990-2009. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method was used to assess the scores of x-efficiency and scale efficiency, the hypotheses of the market power theory and those of the efficient structure theory were tested. Our Results have shown that x-efficiency has had a positive and significant effect on the performance of the Tunisian commercial banks as well as the hypothesis of x-efficiency. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Bank performance; Market structure; X-efficiency; DEA; Tunisian banks.</p> <p><strong>JEL Classifications: </strong>G21; G28; L1&nbsp;</p> ER -