Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency and productivity of a Greek bank's branches. Design/methodology/approach -The sample consists of 458 branches of a Greek commercial bank, operating in 13 regions of Greece over the period 2002-2005, a total of 1,795 observations....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency and productivity of a Greek bank's branches. Design/methodology/approach – The sample consists of 458 branches of a Greek commercial bank, operating in 13 regions of Greece over the period 2002‐2005, a total of 1,795...

Purpose – The present paper aims to examine the relationship between bank's characteristics and market characteristics and the probability of acquisition in the Greek banking industry. Design/methodology/approach – Logistic regression is used to examine a sample of 24 banks, 9 of which were...

Purpose - The present paper aims to examine the relationship between bank's characteristics and market characteristics and the probability of acquisition in the Greek banking industry. Design/methodology/approach -Logistic regression is used to examine a sample of 24 banks, 9 of which were...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the determinants of performance of Greek banks during the period of EU financial integration (1990‐2002). Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to use an unbalanced pooled time series dataset of 23 banks. Findings – High return on average...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the cost efficiency of 58 branches of a major Greek commercial bank, in six major Greek cities, for the years 2000 and 2001. Design/methodology/approach – The efficiency is measured through the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. Using...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the operating efficiency of a set of 171 retail orientation bank branches of a large commercial bank in Greece, offering relatively homogenous products in a multimarket business environment. Design/methodology/approach – For the measurement...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine customer switching behaviour in Greek banking services. More specifically it aims to investigate predictors of churn behaviour as part of customer relationship management (CRM). Design/methodology/approach – The enhancement of existing relationships is of...

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate European equity market integration by analyzing volatility spillover effects between selected indices of high liquidity from the major regulated European equity markets. Design/methodology/approach – In undertaking the empirical analysis, data for...