Pruteanu-Podpiera, Anca; Weill, Laurent; Schobert, Franziska - Česká Národní Banka - 2007
credit represents the largest source of external finance for companies. With the use of exhaustive quarterly data for Czech … banks, this paper aims to provide evidence on the effects of banking competition in the Czech Republic. First, we measure … economies of scale in the banking sector, in this way reducing the cost efficiency of banks. Therefore, our results reject the …