bank issued its own notes. E-money shares many of the characteristics of these bank notes. This paper describes some … lessons relevant to e money from the U.S. experience with national bank notes. It examines historical evidence on how well the … bank notes — a privately issued currency system with multiple issuers — functioned with respect to ease of transacting …

In the United States prior to 1863, each bank issued its own distinct notes. E-money shares many of the characteristics … of these bank notes. This paper describes some lessons relevant to e-money from the U.S. experience with state bank notes …. It examines historical evidence on how well the bank notes — a privately issued currency system with multiple issuers …

This study evaluated efficiency of private and government banks using Data Envelopment Analysis with Assumption of a … centered model was more meaningful than CCR modelused to express the efficiency score of government and private banks that … respectively were 93.82%, 94.52% and thus the weighted average of efficiency for whole banks would be 94.1% …

, especially country effects, and also suggest a preference for efficiency measures over financial measures of bank performance in … sufficient to increase bank efficiency as government-owned banks are not appreciably less efficient than domestic private banks … were privatized first in transition countries. Finally, efficiency declines with bank size, which could call into question …