We investigate the influence of Slovakia accession to European Union on efficiency of Slovak banks over the period 2001-2009. Using a nonparametric approach, we estimate five different efficiency scores, namely cost, allocative, technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency. To test the impact...

We investigate the association between banks' credit expansion and loan loss reserves on a panel of banks from 11 new EU member countries from Central and Eastern Europe during 2004-2010. Unused committed credit lines capture the decline in banks' risk aversion being associated with a supply...

This paper reviews and assesses financial stability challenges in countries preparing for EU membership, i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. The paper mainly focuses on the period since 2016 (unless the analysis requires a longer time...