profitability and cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector are evaluated. The revenue performance of all banks, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

-specific characteristics are found to have a considerable influence on bank efficiency …This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …

Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency … rationale for M&As among banks with similar product portfolios. Interbank and capital market funding is found to be more cost …

We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide … possible explanations for the difference in the efficiency levels of banks. We find that banks, on average, could save 20 … and domestic private banks. Among the factors that could affect the efficiency levels are macroeconomic stability, depth …

This study investigates the relationship between production efficiency in financial intermediation and financial system …-maximizing intermediaries operating in large systems are expected to have lower production costs and lower costs of risk absorption and … shows strongly supporting evidence in favor of SSEs. It also finds that the institutional environment, the risk environment …

developing countries across the world. We analyze the impact of this shift into services on countries' efficiency in collecting … the value-added tax (VAT). The analysis is based on two alternative measures of VAT efficiency: (1) the VAT C-efficiency … 2004-2016. We find that a higher share of services in aggregate value-added reduces the VAT efficiency, and that this …