We investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). We … assess to what extent the relatively high bank margins in CEEC can be attributed to low efficiency or non-competitive market …

progress in banking reforms, privatization and corporate governance restructuring, also has a positive impact on bank … of bank efficiency further show that foreign banks are associated with higher profit efficiency but moderately lower cost …

explain those particularities by the different methods of banking sector privatization, the different approaches for solving …

addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the … and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … tumultuous experiences and eventually dealt successfully with the accumulated bad loans and lack of strong bank regulation. In …