We investigate the influence of Slovakia accession to European Union on efficiency of Slovak banks over the period 2001-2009. Using a nonparametric approach, we estimate five different efficiency scores, namely cost, allocative, technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency. To test the impact...

The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of the accession of Slovakia to the European Union and the Euro zone (Euro area) on the efficiency of Slovak banks. We use data envelopment analysis to estimate bank efficiency, and ordinary least squares and tobit regression to estimate...