greater efficiency of the public administration in public service delivery in Croatia questionable. The urgent adoption of …

A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … research is to analyze the relationship between efficiency, measured by the cost function using the stochastic frontier …

This paper examines the impact of regulatory policies on banking market efficiency using a sample of 678 commercial … Squares method. Focus is on two alternative measures of banking market efficiency: net interest margin and overhead costs … (operating expenses to assets). Elevated levels of these two ratios should indicate a low level of banking efficiency. The …

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 …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

To what extent has input reallocation contributed to aggregate productivity growth in the banking sectors of Europe and … share, in particular in the US. The pattern of reallocation is markedly different between the geographical regions: European … productivity has grown by reallocating inputs through the first half of the sample period, at the same time when reallocation …

this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the …

this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the …

This paper investigates the cost efficiency of 1974 credit institutions across 15 European countries over the five … still exceeded 16% in 1997. -- X-efficiency ; Economies of scale ; European Banking ; Cost Frontier ; Recursive Thick …