Graziella, Bonanno - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti (2014) 2, pp. 277-306
The objective of this paper is to analyse the efficiency of the Italian Banking System over the period 2006-2011. The Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) is applied to a panel of 700 Italian Banks. The analysis is based on the joint estimation of a cost function and an efficiency equation...