decades by deep changes, mainly due to the new applicable bank legislation, to a progressive European integration, and the …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … highcost, high-income system, particularly with respect to retail/services, and efficiency gains have yet to fully materialize … to be an important consideration, both in enforcing Italy''s antitrust laws and in ensuring that the procedures for …

financial intermediation and the supremacy of banks' efficiency. This study examines the concurrent effects of bank risk … intermediation, bank risk, and efficiency and validated the nonlinear relationship considering size and market competition effect. …, efficiency and cost of financial intermediation of Bangladeshi commercial banks. The Two-Step System GMM (2GMM) estimators 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 …