This paper examines the case for efficiency-driven banking sector consolidation in Italy, evaluates its potential … gradually recovers, operational efficiency gains are nonetheless needed to restore large parts of the banking system to healthy … profitability. Banking system consolidation can play a role in facilitating such efficiency gains, but its effectiveness is likely …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … highcost, high-income system, particularly with respect to retail/services, and efficiency gains have yet to fully materialize …

interest rate spreads and margins in Armenia using a bank-level panel dataset for the period 2002 to 2006. We find that bank …-specific factors, such as bank size, liquidity, and market power, as well as the market structure within which banks operate, explain a … potential to increase cost efficiency and competition in the banking system …

This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides … the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier … analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of moments system to explain financial development. SSA banks are found …

The paper analyzes the efficiency and profitability of Japanese banks from 2000-06. It uses a non-parametric approach …, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze banks'' cost and revenue efficiency. The results show that the performance … regional banks being less cost and revenue efficient relative to both City and Trust banks. While Japanese bank profitability …

far-reaching banking sector reforms undertaken in Uganda to improve competition and efficiency. Using models that have … has been associated with a rise in efficiency. Moreover, on average, larger banks and foreign-owned banks have become more …

provide guidance to policymakers regarding bank privatization …This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector …

Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the …

public investment efficiency, it uses model simulations to assess the macroeconomic implications of raising public investment … and improving public investment efficiency. The main results are as follows: (i) increasing public infrastructure … investment results in sustained gains in output; (ii) the effects of improving public investment efficiency are substantial; and …