Size, Structure and Financial Efficiency of CEE’S Banking Sectors

This paper carries out a comparative analysis of the banking sectors of the Central and Eastern European countries against the banking sectors of developed countries. In the analysis indicators describing the size, structure and financial efficiency of European banking sectors were used. The cluster analysis methods were also applied, enabling the classification of the European banking sector in respect to all adopted indicators. The results clearly indicate large differences in the size, structure and financial condition between the banking sectors of countries with developed economies and their counterparts in CEE countries