This paper provides an explanation of technical inefficiencies of financial exchanges in Europe as well as an empirical analysis of their existence and extent.A single-stage stochastic cost frontier approach is employed, which generates exchange inefficiency scores based on a unique unbalanced...

The paper stresses on the importance of understanding the operational choices, strategies, and performances of stock exchanges as regular operating firms (Arnold et al (1999), and Pirrong (1999)) Using unbalanced panel data on 49 stock exchanges over the period 1989 1998, the paper traces the...

This paper examines progressive changes in productivity of the European stock exchange industry using non-parametric frontier techniques.Within the framework of Malmquist indices, total factor productivity growth is decomposed into technological progress and technical efficiency change for a...

The paper investigates the existence and extent of economies of scale in depository and settlement systems.Evidence from 16 settlement institutions across different regions for the years 1993-2000 indicates the existence of significant economies of scale.The degree of such economies, however,...

The economic theory of network externalities provides the rationale for this paper, which investigates whether adoption of network strategies in European stock exchanges creates additional value in the provision of trading services.Using unbalanced panel data from all major European exchanges...