over accumulating equity capital in terms of allocative efficiency, based on which I discuss implications of bank …

Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at … of performance in response to efficiency improvements remain often unclear on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …

achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …

the efficiency of banks? Third, what are the risk effects of international bank mergers? We begin with a brief summary of …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) has been not related to higher managerial skills …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …. Overall, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) attained by banks prior to the current …