This study analyses productive efficiency in banking and scale and scope economies using stochastic frontier analysis …

show a moderate profit persistence for domestic banks unlike foreign banks. Nevertheless, this result was reversed when …

to measure the effects of financial reforms in banks productivity and efficiency in the WAEMU area during the 1996 …-2006 period, and secondly, to draw the mains managerial determinants of banks efficiency. The productivity and efficiency scores … did not permit to banks to increase their technical efficiency. Thirdly, small banks make more efforts to reduce their …