Banking efficiency in Turkey was expected to improve after liberalization. Instead, it declined, perhaps because of …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses …, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) has been not related to higher managerial skills …

efficiency of commercial banks. Risk that leads to an undesirable output, and which is viewed as originating due to exogenous and …-stage DEA is performed to measure risk efficiency and multiplicatively decompose it into exogenous and endogenous risk … sector banks in attaining risk efficiency. Structural risk efficiency attributed to exogenous and endogenous factors appears …

evidence on the existence of different bank technologies in international banking with different response schedules to external …. Using bank level structural variables we determine four different profit and cost banking technologies in the data. Further … analysis indicates heterogeneity not only among the level of profit and cost efficiency, but also regarding the response of …

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

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 …

technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified …This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified …This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …