Efficiency of Performance of Banks in the Gulf Region Before, During and After Crises (Financial and Political)
Only a few cross-country empirical studies have been conducted to measure the performance of commercial banks especially before, during, and after crises (financial or political). This study makes an attempt to fill the gap in the literature by investigating the impacts of crises on Gulf Corporate Council (GCC) commercial banks’ performance over the period 1997-2007. The rationale behind this selection is that the GCC countries within this period witnessed two major crises: a political crisis (the second Gulf war) and a financial crisis (the current global crisis).