Document Details

Document Type : Article In Journal 
Document Title :
Estimating Constant Elasticity of Substitution For Saudi Banking Sector
تقدير دالة مرونة الإحلال الثابتة للقطاع البنكي السعودي
 
Subject : Economics 
Document Language : Arabic 
Abstract : The banking industry in Saudi Arabia became a leading sector. The size of this sector in term of labor, capital, productivity, profitability, and assets placed it ahead of other sectors. There has been a great deal of growth in this industry during the last two decades. The goal of this paper is not only to analyze the production of this sector, but also to investigate technical and substitution relationship among inputs, and inputs-outputs. The study covers the period 1980-1996 using pooled time-series and cross-sectional data with 170 observations. We found that that CES and its Kamenta’s approximation are appropriate for this study to explain the production behavior of the banking industry in Saudi Arabia. A major finding of this paper is that the sector tends to have increasing return to scale shifting from constant return to scale in the eighties. The return to scale in the industry now is 1.024. This means that an increase in the inputs by certain percentage will lead to an increase in the outputs by more percentage. Among the findings of this paper is that the industry enjoys an acceptable level of efficiency. 
ISSN : 1319-0997 
Journal Name : Economics and Administration Journal 
Volume : 12 
Issue Number : 2 
Publishing Year : 1419 AH
1999 AD 
Article Type : Article 
Added Date : Sunday, October 11, 2009 

Researchers

Researcher Name (Arabic)Researcher Name (English)Researcher TypeDr GradeEmail
محي-الدين ياسين أيوبMOHYEE-ELDIN YASEEN AYOUBResearcher  

Files

File NameTypeDescription
 21744.pdf pdf 

Back To Researches Page