interest margins. This study examines the connection between bank size and efficiency to understand whether that relationship …There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big ba nks compared to small …, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contra st, several studies found that when bank size increases beyond certain …

estimate bank-specific Lerner indices as measures of competition and test if cost and profit efficiency are negatively related … cost savings. We suggest a united approach to measure competition and efficiency simultaneously to test this hypothesis. We …

interest margins. This study examines the connection between bank size and efficiency to understand whether that relationship …There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big ba nks compared to small …, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contra st, several studies found that when bank size increases beyond certain …

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 …

Over the past several years, substantial research effort has gone into measuring the efficiency of financial … measured efficiency. This paper examines several possible sources, including differences in efficiency concept, measurement … method, and a number of bank, market, and regulatory characteristics. We review the existing literature and provide new …

from the cross-section efficiency literature. Our most striking result is that during 1991-1997, cost productivity worsened …