This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

of the well-known trade-off between competition and production efficiency. Most conventional beliefs actually require …

deals with the efficiency of 85 small regional European airports for the years 2002-2009 by applying a data envelopment …. Belonging to an airport system reduces efficiency by about 5 percent. The average break-even passenger throughput over the last … Russell measure of data envelopment analysis is implemented. Results indicate higher average efficiency levels at Spanish …