this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the … “normal” and in “bad” times. These results provide evidence to the importance of swiftly restoring bank pro_tability in euro … area crisis countries through addressing high nonperforming loans ratios and decisive actions on bank recapitalization. …

This paper investigates the cost efficiency of 1974 credit institutions across 15 European countries over the five … banking industry. However, the saving bank sector may reduce average costs with roughly 6% by choosing an optimal size for its … still exceeded 16% in 1997. -- X-efficiency ; Economies of scale ; European Banking ; Cost Frontier ; Recursive Thick …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses …, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) has been not related to higher managerial skills …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses …. Overall, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) attained by banks prior to the current …

negative relationship between non-bank financial intermediation and average bank efficiency and a positive impact of GDP on … average bank efficiency. These novel empirical findings contribute to the policy discussions on the effect of non-bank …This paper applies a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study the effect of non-bank financial intermediation on bank …

Using a sample of US banks between 2001 and 2013, this paper investigates the impact of competition on bank efficiency …, the bank-specific factors that increase the likelihood of securitization, the previously untested impact of securitization … on efficiency, and the effect of the interaction between competition and securitization on efficiency. We confirm that …

estimate a non-structural indicator of banking competition, using the H-statistic indicator that is estimated using bank … specified period. We want to fill the gap in the banking literature testing the validity of the Competition-Efficiency … Hypothesis, analysing the impact of the banking competition measures on two alternative measures of efficiency, cost and profit …

significant supervisory and regulatory reforms affecting banks efficiency performance. We offer new insights investigating overall … that persistent efficiency seems to be more important for both specifications, as it accounts for 32\% (for the production …

financial deregulation and transition period. We first measure bank cost and profit efficiencies using the stochastic frontier … efficiency over the period 2004-2010. By employing β- convergence and σ- convergence we assess the speed at which banking markets … convergence of cost and profit efficiency levels towards the averages in the entire EU, the old EU countries and the new EU …

The main objective of this study is to analyse the evolution of banking efficiency in the Baltic countries after their … efficiency in the Baltic countries in the context of the enlarged EU during the period 2000-2013 using Bayesian stochastic … financial crisis. However, cost efficiency is still at low levels in line with the other European countries. …