scores and then Tobit estimation to analyze the impact of financial market regulations and country governance on bank …, government effectiveness is found to be positively related to bank efficiency. Consistent with economic theory, corruption is … negatively related to bank efficiency. Therefore, this study reveals the importance of financial market regulations and country …

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

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

of individual banks. In particular, we analyse the value relevance of bank cost efficiency and total factor productivity …

The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses … the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …