This study investigates the evolution of banking efficiency of post-communist new EU member countries over a time span 1998 to 2003. In these transition economies major strides were taken during this period to establish functioning market economies and financial systems for their EU membership...

This Chapter presents an application of quantile regression analysis in estimating the cost efficiency of 1,520 commercial banks operating in 73 countries during 2000-2006. This approach allows us to estimate banks' cost function for various quantiles of the conditional distribution and to...