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In a recent paper, Karadima and Louri use frontier-based measures of market power and bank competition in an …
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In this reply, we provide detailed answers to the remarks made by Tsionas on the use of stochastic frontier-based measures of market power in a part of our empirical study, which examines the fragmentation and convergence dynamics of market power, concentration and credit risk in the euro area...
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In this paper we consider the possibility that a firm may use costly resources to improve its technical efficiency. Results from static analyses imply that technical efficiency is determined by the configuration of factor prices. A dynamic model of the firm is developed under the assumption that...
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across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We … find that the alignment between the two bank types is positively related to the country's financial depth, transparency …, economic stability and banking concentration. At the bank level, the alignment in the two banking systems is associated with …
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Productivity and efficiency analyses have been indispensable tools for evaluating firms’ performance in the banking sector. In this context, the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has been recently proposed in order to obtain a globally flexible functional form which is capable of...
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This paper specifies an empirical framework for estimating both technical and allocative efficiency, which is applied to a large panel of European banks over the years 1996 to 2003. Our methodology allows for self-consistent measurement of technical and allocative inefficiency, in an effort to...
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