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 …

This paper investigates the cost efficiency of 1974 credit institutions across 15 European countries over the five … banking industry. However, the saving bank sector may reduce average costs with roughly 6% by choosing an optimal size for its … still exceeded 16% in 1997. -- X-efficiency ; Economies of scale ; European Banking ; Cost Frontier ; Recursive Thick …

This paper specifies an empirical framework for estimating both technical and allocative efficiency, which is applied … results suggest that, on average, European banks exhibit constant returns to scale, that technical and allocative efficiency … are close to 80% and 75% respectively, and that overall economic efficiency shows a clearly improving trend. We also show …

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 …