Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

Using panel firm-level data, this paper analyses the main factors affecting firms' access to bank credit in eleven Euro … Area countries over the period 2014-2016. We focus on firm's loan demand behaviour and on bank's actual credit granting … public support and credit history, experience greater difficulties in accessing to bank loans. Moreover, we provide evidence …

financial institutions subject to the classical technology restrictions of neoclassical production theory. The model can be … estimated using standard econometric techniques, like GMM for dynamic panel data and latent factor analysis for the estimation … mechanism”, (ii) the bank- and country-specific estimates of risk aversion and prudence (downside risk aversion), and (iii) the …

and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving …

The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses … the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …

The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses … the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …

This paper applies a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study the effect of non-bank financial intermediation on bank … stage, the impact of environmental factors like the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) narrow measure on non-bank financial … negative relationship between non-bank financial intermediation and average bank efficiency and a positive impact of GDP on …

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 … Regulation and Supervision Survey database conducted by the World Bank, published 2012. Besides these we incorporate bank size …

The research interest in bank profitability and efficiency is linked to the economic situation and an important issue … moments estimator technique is used to analyze the influence of some bank-specific characteristics, controlled by management …, on the profitability as a measure of bank performance. After that, through the value-based data envelopment analysis (DEA …

, we apply a panel data model, in order to investigate the process of banking integration by testing for convergence and … for convergent clusters in banking efficiency. Findings - Our main findings show that the bank efficiency of the US is …. Originality/value - Our survey is unique in trying to check for convergence while controlling for country-specific and bank …