This paper examines the productive efficiency of a sample of private Korean banks over the 1985 to 1995 time period. The goal of the analysis is to identify the key determinants of Korean bank efficiency (inefficiency) following the program of deregulation initiated by the government in the...

The objective of this paper is to examine the empirical link between banking and financial system structure and economic growth, by constructing a cross‐country regression model using data over the 1970–1988 period, for a diverse set of countries. We extend the existing literature by...