Croatia increased their total factor productivity by 2.2% on average, mainly due to an increase in technological change (1 … efficiency in different ways with respect to the size of banks. Large banks improved their total factor productivity by 7 …Purpose: The consolidation of the banking market in Croatia is characterized by a decreasing number of banks …

parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …

activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they … subsequently merged with other banks. German banks were still able to increase their productivity through consolidation. …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence … alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) is compared with the joint …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

older people reduces bank efficiency. Demographic changes through population aging and migration from poor to rich regions …

evidence supporting the efficient structure hypotheses. Finally, capital ratios and bank size seem to be among the most … efficient structure (X- and scale effciency) hypotheses for a sample of over 2,500 bank observations in nine Latin American …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

We use an industrial organisation approach to quantify the size of Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) for euro … period. In addition, we observe that Total Factor Productivity growth for the median euro area bank decreased from around 2 …. Given the need to boost productivity and enhance profitability in the euro area banking sector, these findings suggests that …