Inanoglu, Hulusi; El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. - In: Journal of Applied Econometrics 20 (2005) 5, pp. 641-664
Recent studies have stressed the importance of privatization and openness to foreign competition for bank efficiency and economic growth. We study bank efficiency in Turkey, an emerging economy with great heterogeneity in bank types and ownership structures. Earlier studies of Turkish banking...