This paper estimates commercial banks’ efficiency in three relatively homogenous groups of countries with different … European integration and economic situation are visible also in banking efficiency. Thus we test the hypothesis that the higher … degree of European economic integration and economic development goes hand in hand with higher baking efficiency. Employing …

market equilibrium. This law has powerful implications for productive efficiency analysis, which have remained unexploited …). Utilizing the relation between the industry level and the firm level cost efficiency measures, we propose to apply a set of … input prices that is common for all firms and that maximizes cost efficiency of the industry. Our framework allows for firm …

We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of …

This paper is the first attempt to estimate commercial banks’ efficiency in the Visegrad region before joining the EU … and also to consider differences in efficiency across the countries. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, we analyze which … efficiency since 1999. Incorporating censored Tobit regression analysis we try to detect whether the cross-country differences …