This study aims at analyzing the efficiency Islamic banks by using the non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA), to estimate five efficiency scores for each bank, and to study the impact of the banking characteristics on efficiency scores. Based on a sample of Islamic banks in the MENA region over the period 2005-2009, we have shown that the dominant source of overall inefficiency of these banks is organizational (technical inefficiency) rather than regulatory (allocative inefficiency). | The impact of bank characteristics on the efficiency: Evidence from mena Islamic banks
