In this article, we used a stochastic frontier model to estimate the cost efficiency of cooperative banks and savings banks from nine countries over the period 2005 to 2011. In addition, we analyzed the influence of certain variables that quantify the risk and performance of cooperative banks...

The paper analyzes the efficiency and productivity of the most important banking system from 2006-08 and tries to address the long-term challenges posed by the global financial crisis. A non-parametric frontier analysis (DEA) is applied to estimate the relative efficiency of banks segments in...