for convergent clusters in banking efficiency. Findings - Our main findings show that the bank efficiency of the US is …Purpose - This paper investigates the development of efficiency and the progress of banking integration in the European … bootstrap DEA method, which absorbs the effects of possible integration barriers in the measurement of efficiency. Afterwards …

This study investigates the evolution of banking efficiency of post-communist new EU member countries over a time span … economies and financial systems for their EU membership in 2004. In light of the EU enlargement, it is significant to examine … whether significant efficiency improvements were achieved in their banking systems. Adopting the approach by Sickles (2005 …