Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) is applied to a panel of 700 Italian Banks. The analysis is based on the joint estimation of a … that the cost efficiency of cooperative banks (CCB) is always higher than that observed for joint-stock companies (LTD) and … Popolari banks. Third, the study suggests that cost efficiency tends to decrease as bank size increases. Finally, as regards …

Cost inefficiency of banks in many countries is quite high. Financial sector reforms in India are also aimed at … improving efficiency, productivity and profitability of banks via increased competitiveness. An assessment based on a fairly … general framework in the Indian context has found that cost inefficiency of domestic banks in the post-reforms period is not …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of banks’ sovereign debt exposures on the financial development of … Turkey. Results of the bounds test reveal a long-run and negative equilibrium relationship between banks’ domestic claims on …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

The paper estimates and compares cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in Thailand by using bank-panel data … significant acquisitions by foreign banks after the 1997 financial crisis. The widely used translog functional form specification … domestic and foreign banks are indistinguishable, although the two types of banks focus on different areas of the banking …

This paper considers cost and profit efficiency for Australian banks between 1995 and 2002. Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA) is used to construct an efficient frontier for ten banks listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Empirical results … indicate the major banks have improved their cost and profit efficiency, while the regional banks have experienced little …

The paper estimates and compares cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in Thailand by using bank-panel data … significant acquisitions by foreign banks after the 1997 financial crisis. The widely used translog functional form specification … domestic and foreign banks are indistinguishable, although the two types of banks focus on different areas of the banking …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

directors holding a PhD on boards of large Czech banks enhances bank stability captured by Z-score. Moreover, we detect risk …-enhancing implications of board size for the segments of building savings societies and small and midsized banks. As for average board tenure …