integration has taken place on the banking markets, by investigating the convergence in banking efficiency for European Union … provide gains in growth by favoring competition and efficiency on financial markets. Our paper aims to check whether financial … countries. We measure cost efficiency of banks from 10 EU countries between 1994 and 2005 with the stochastic frontier approach …

This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the … efficiency score and the efficiency ranking to a change in the design of the frontier. We found that the average scores are … significantly smaller when the transcendental logarithmic functional form is used in the profit efficiency measurement and when the …

This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the … efficiency score and the efficiency ranking to a change in the design of the frontier. We found that the average scores are … significantly smaller when the transcendental logarithmic functional form is used in the profit efficiency measurement and when the …

impact of efficiency, as well as concentration, on banking competition measured by the Net Interest Margin (NIM), controlling …On the road to the new landscape in EU banking brought on by the financial crisis we assess the relationship between … the level of competitiveness and efficiency. We estimate X-inefficiency for a sample of banks operating in the European …

Purpose - This paper investigates the development of efficiency and the progress of banking integration in the European … for convergent clusters in banking efficiency. Findings - Our main findings show that the bank efficiency of the US is … convergence of efficiency of Eurozone, European and US banking. Finally, in our paper special consideration was given to the …

impact of efficiency, as well as concentration, on banking competition measured by the Net Interest Margin (NIM), controlling …On the road to the new landscape in EU banking brought on by the financial crisis we assess the relationship between … the level of competitiveness and efficiency. We estimate X-inefficiency for a sample of banks operating in the European …

resulted in efficiency gains. Capitalization, liquidity, and enterprise restructuring enhanced bank efficiency, while banking …The paper examines the efficiency of Bulgarian banks and its determinants over the period 1999-2007. The levels of … technical, allocative, and cost efficiency are estimated using a non-parametric methodology and then regressed upon a number of …

This article develops a search-theoretic model of financial intermediation to study the efficiency condition of the … banking sector. Competitive financial intermediation is determined by the search decisions of both households (to find … by the interest rate setting mechanism. The efficiency of the competitive economy requires that interest rates are posted …

This paper estimates cost and profit efficiency for Latin American and the Caribbean banking sectors. This study also … been estimated for a panel of 427 banking firms from sixteen countries. The empirical analysis reveals the importance of … the environmental variables in explaining the efficiency differences among countries. The results show that profit …

This study analyses bank efficiency in Vietnam from 1999 to 2009. We use a unique data sample that allows us to capture … the development of the Vietnamese banking sector over the last decade. We apply an advanced methodological approach … introduced by Simar and Wilson (2007) to examine bank efficiency in Vietnam. An integral part of the analysis is to explore the …