Large lending in the banking industry has sparked concerns about banks' efficiency performance, particularly as it related to their credit risk as trade credit, provided by large, creditworthy firms. We provide evidence at a rather neglected issue regarding the impact of large lending on banks'...

Although European Single Market (ESM) has been widely perceived as a model for regional integration, there continues to be considerable debate about the impact of this integration on the EU regions. Studies in this field have mainly investigated the convergence-divergence issue, while the effect...

As the consumption of energy is responsible for approximately, 80% of GHG in EU, the impact of energy activity on the environment has received increasing attention over the last decades from scholars, researchers, politicians and society as a whole. Within EU member countries it is commonly...

The current and future performance of regional health systems is responsible for increasing health costs and it depends on a wide range of contextual factors. Studies on regional health productive performance and on different health systems are scarce. This paper focuses on the efficiency of...

European industries are under pressure regarding their environmental performance and productivity growth. The current energy crisis offsets governments’ efforts to achieve carbon neutrality while removing significant degrees of freedom in terms of firm’s competitiveness. This paper studies...

This article provides a first step towards understanding the combined impact of energy, renewable and CO2 efficiency on countries’ overall productive performance. To this aim we employ a global-level data-set of 124 countries for the period 1990-2014. Overall, our analysis supports the idea...