This study examines the loan-pricing behavior of German banks for a large variety of retail and corporate loan products …. We find that a bank"s operational efficiency is priced in bank loan rates and alters interest-setting behavior … capture a bank"s operational efficiency, we take a look at the bank customers" perspective and demonstrate the extent to which …

banks over the period from 1994 until 2007, a period characterised by far-reaching changes brought about by the banking … different techniques. The cost efficiency of Chinese banks is found to be 91% on average, based on our SFA model, over the … banks over the sample period is about 89% and 87%, respectively. We find that Chinese banking efficiency has deteriorated …

sectors using an unbalanced panel data set consisting of 280 commercial banks over the period of 1998 to 2005. It is widely … agreed that cross-country differences play an important part in examining banks performance in international comparison. They … incorporating these cross-country heterogeneities suggests that cross-country differences are important sources to explain banks …