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 …

This paper investigates the effects of ownership patterns on bank cost and profit efficiencies taking a sample of 607 … from bank-level inefficiency but also from differences related to other bank- and country-specific factors. Specifically … efficiency. This study also reveals that ownership concentration (blockholding) has adverse effects for the profit and cost …

not only of the technology but also of firm-level heterogeneity in technical and allocative efficiency levels. The …

We develop a novel unified econometric methodology for the formal examination of the market power -- cost efficiency … nexus. Our approach can meaningfully accommodate a mutually dependent relationship between the firm's cost efficiency and …'s market power and efficiency as well as allows for different hierarchical orderings between the two, enabling us to …

We quantify the impact of bank market power on monetary policy transmission through banks to borrowers. We estimate a …-through of these costs to borrowers and depositors, while facing capital and reserve regulation. We find that bank market power … explains much of the transmission of monetary policy to borrowers, with an effect comparable to that of bank capital regulation …

Recent studies of monetary policy in developing countries document a weak bank lending channel based on aggregate data …, volumes and rates, coupled with unanticipated variation in monetary policy. We show that a monetary contraction reduces bank …

faced by a bank. Assuming that loans may turn bad any year after they are granted, a banks’ lending behaviour has been shown … Indian banking industry. However, when the systemic importance of the bank is considered, the systemically important banks …

bank lending and risk-taking channels of monetary policy by exploiting – Italian's unique – credit and security registers …