productivity of Spanish banks from early 2000, including the last financial crisis and the post-crisis period. This allows us to …, though large banks were less affected. We also find that risk, capital levels, competition and input prices were important … drivers of the differences in productivity change between banks. Finally, our results suggest that, by the end of our sample …

the average the commercial banks are using only 85 percent of their resources efficiently compared to the best practice … cost inefficiency of the commercial banks is 1.39, suggesting that, on average, 39 percent of the commercial bank's costs … conditions. Second, some improvements in banks' profit and cost efficiency can be observed after the liberalization of the entry …

This study aims to investigate the cost efficiency of Turkish commercial banks over the restructuring period of the … are not exposed to model selection bias. Overall, our empirical results reveal that cost efficiencies of Turkish banks …