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Document Type : Article In Journal 
Document Title :
Cobb-Douglas?Production Function for the Saudi Banking Industry in the Eighties
تقدير إنتاجية القطاع البنكي السعودي خلال الثمانينيات باستخدام دالة كوب دجلاس
 
Subject : Economics 
Document Language : Arabic 
Abstract : The Saudi banking industry is one of the largest productive sectors in the country in terms of capital, labor, and output.This sector played a major role in the Saudi economy in the eighties.It experienced a great deal of developmentand growth in the technology of producing the banking services and the quality and quantity of these services. This paperstudies and analyzes the production of the Saudi banking industry in the eighties.For this purposeCobb-Douglas production function and its various forms have been utilized for estimating production parameters by using OLS techniques.The collected data were both time series and cross sectionalcovering the entire banking industry for the period 1980-1989.On the basis of the findings, Cobb-Douglas production function and its intensive formproved to be the best models to explain all the issues of the Saudi banking industry.The results show that the elasticities of capital and labor are 0.43 and 0.56 respectively. Accordingly,constant returns to scale seem to characterizethe Saudi banking industry. 
ISSN : 1319-0997 
Journal Name : Economics and Administration Journal 
Volume : 11 
Issue Number : 1 
Publishing Year : 1418 AH
1998 AD 
Article Type : Article 
Added Date : Sunday, October 11, 2009 

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محي-الدين ياسين أيوبMOHYEELDIN YASEEN AYOUBResearcher  

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