) effect on the cost efficiency of the banks, while funding (income) diversification has a significantly negative (positive …) effect on profit efficiency. Our findings reveal that during the global financial crisis asset diversification is not … beneficial for the banks, whereas funding ‎diversification has a positive effect on cost and profit efficiency.‎ Our results …

for convergent clusters in banking efficiency. Findings - Our main findings show that the bank efficiency of the US is …Purpose - This paper investigates the development of efficiency and the progress of banking integration in the European … convergence of efficiency of Eurozone, European and US banking. Finally, in our paper special consideration was given to the …

By eliminating the influence of statistical noise, stochastic frontier techniques permit the estimation of the best …. S. bank holding companies, we obtain evidence on market discipline: we find that higher managerial ownership at most …