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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...
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761739
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the total factor productivity (TFP) change in the Greek cooperative banking industry over the period 2000-2005. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the Malmquist index and estimate two models, one based on the intermediation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319840
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814821
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014939978
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of institutional developments – market economy, financial deepening, private sector, property rights and rule of law – affecting the bank efficiency in China. Design/methodology/approach – First, profit efficiency and cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014940031
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the market‐value relevance of frontier efficiency scores and to test hypotheses from corporate control and production theory by analyzing the market response to US property–liability (P–L) insurer acquisitions and divestitures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014940032
Purpose – This paper examines whether earnings and its components are relevant and sufficient to bridge the gap between banks' market and book values, and also considers if bank efficiency is “value relevant” for banks valuation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper follows the value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014940033
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that affect differences in measured efficiency of foreign‐owned banks operating in Australia. The relevance of both comparative advantage theory and new trade theory to multinational banking in Australia will be tested....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014940034
Purpose – This paper aims to compare the cost efficiencies across bank‐and market‐based EU countries for the different groups of commercial, savings and co‐operative banks; and between listed and non‐listed banking institutions. In addition, it attempts to determine any potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014940036