Author(s): Rym Ayadi, Sami Ben Naceur, Barbara Casu, Barry Quinn
Subject: International capital standards
Date of publication: December 2015
The global financial crisis underscored the importance of regulation and supervision for a well-functioning banking system that efficiently channels financial resources into investments. In this paper, Rym Ayadi, Barry Quinn, Sami Ben Naceur and Barbara Casu contributed to the ongoing policy debate by assessing whether compliance with international regulatory standards and protocols enhance bank operating efficiency. The paper focuses specifically on the adoption of international capital standards and the Basel Core Principles for Effective Bank Supervision (BCP). The relationship between bank efficiency and regulatory compliance is investigated using the (Simar and Wilson 2007) double bootstrapping approach on an international sample of publicly listed banks. The results indicate that overall BCP compliance, or indeed compliance with any of its individual chapters, have no association with bank efficiency.