of the well-known trade-off between competition and production efficiency. Most conventional beliefs actually require …

deals with the efficiency of 85 small regional European airports for the years 2002-2009 by applying a data envelopment …. Belonging to an airport system reduces efficiency by about 5 percent. The average break-even passenger throughput over the last … Russell measure of data envelopment analysis is implemented. Results indicate higher average efficiency levels at Spanish …

interest margins. This study examines the connection between bank size and efficiency to understand whether that relationship …, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contra st, several studies found that when bank size increases beyond certain …-overlapping thresholds for bank size. We found two key results. First, bank size increases bank interest rate margins with an inverted U …

This paper discusses the research agenda on optimal bank productive efficiency and industrial structure. One goal of … this agenda is to answer some fundamental questions in financial industry restructuring, such as what motivates bank … an empirical question. The paper reviews the recent literature, including techniques for modeling bank production and the …