Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

This paper examines the impact of regulatory policies on banking market efficiency using a sample of 678 commercial … banks from 21 European Union countries for the post-crisis year 2010, controlling for bank-specific and country …-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank …