This paper investigates the consistency of efficiency frontier methods on European banking samples. We measure the cost … efficiency of banks from five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland) with three approaches: stochastic …

This paper analyses the effect of bank profitability on economic growth. While policymakers have shown major concerns … for low levels of bank profitability, there are no empirical studies on the growth effects of bank profitability. To fill … this gap, we investigate the impact of bank profitability on economic growth using a sample of 133 countries during the …