LOZANO-VIVAS, ANA; PASTOR, JESUS T. - In: Manchester School 74 (2006) 4, pp. 469-482
This paper examines the contribution of the banking sector to overall economic activity for a sample of 15 OECD countries during an 18-year period. Resorting to a recently defined global Malmquist index, we detect productivity growth in both cases and study the influence of its two components,...