Figueira, Catarina; Nellis, Joseph; Parker, David - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 26 (2009) 3, pp. 155-170
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cost efficiency of banks operating in two “non‐core” EU … countries, Portugal and Spain, over a number of years. Specifically, the paper aims to examine the extent to which banks … analysis is used to identify banks' levels of performance over time in both countries. In order to decompose banks' total …