The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple … accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data … the traditional accounting ratios and the sophisticated DEA methodology in the measurement of bank efficiency. GLS random …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for …

' international activities. We find that country- and bank-specific variables capturing size have a major impact on banks' foreign …

services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure …. At the household level we find that the holding of a bank account or bank card increases with income, wealth and … integration. Our results show that foreign bank ownership is associated with more bank accounts among high-wealth, high …

We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in bank's lending … foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …

Reinhard Ortner (Erste Bank) is based on a talk he gave on the occasion of the 22nd SUERF Colloquium in Vienna in 2000, and …

The measurement of bank output, a difficult and contentious issue, has become even more important in the aftermath of … information and transactions imply a quantity measure of bank service output based on transaction counts instead of balances of … on balances, this implies a potentially considerable bias in the estimate of bank output growth in Europe vis-à-vis that …