Chinese urban commercial banks are currently the third largest type of commercial bank in China, and they have been rapidly developing in recent years. While they play a vital role in the financial system and economy, there is limited research on the productivity of these banks. This article...

In this paper we extend the tests of the monotonicity and concavity of a non-spatial translog production function to the case where there is spatial autoregressive dependence. The tests are then applied using data for 40 European countries over the period 1995-2008