This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

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 …

We investigate in this paper differences in productive efficiency across sixteen European countries. In order to assess … differences in productive efficiency, we have built a dynamic input-output model and computed for each country the balanced growth …

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 …