efficiency in different ways with respect to the size of banks. Large banks improved their total factor productivity by 7 … efficiency over time. Therefore, the main aim of the study was to determine whether small banks can successfully participate in … the efficiency race with large banks. Furthermore, it was essential to clarify whether the efficiency gap arises from …

Size is one of the factors that condition the managerial organization of the firms and their efficiency and … productivity. Moreover size has been found a highly significant variable in explaining differences in firm's innovative activities … efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect the …

This paper examines the pre-exit productivity performance and asks how productivity affects future survival, using firm …

Heterogeneity in size and productivity is central to models that explain which manufacturing firms export. This study …. First, virtually all banks hold at least some foreign assets, irrespective of size or productivity. Second, some fairly … banks have a commercial presence abroad, consistent with the size pecking order documented for manufacturing firms. However …