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 …

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

function with a timevariable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … efficiency as the acquiring firms. For the post-merger phase, our empirical results provide no evidence for efficiency gains from … taken over by others are less efficient than the average bank in the same size class, but exhibit on average the same …

This study investigates the efficiency effect of bank mergers in Vietnam between 2007 and 2011. The findings suggest … that the exclusion of off-balance sheet activities from output specification underestimates the technical efficiency of … banks and reduces the number of possible combinations of mergers. Thereafter, 59 possible bank mergers (PBMs) out of 136 are …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

bank stock return on bank efficiency suggests that an improvement in technical, cost or profit efficiency contributes to …The stochastic frontier analysis is employed to investigate efficiency of publicly listed Australian banks over the … period 1985-2008. The results suggest that technical, cost and profit efficiency of Australian banks have improved over our …