economically significant effect of higher mean cost efficiency for economic growth, suggesting that the interaction between better … effects of deepening capital markets are only significant beyond a certain efficiency threshold of approximately 70 percent …

Many studies have focused on spatial patterns in economic growth. For the case of Europe, these studies have indicated … revealed. Second, by applying this methodology on geographical distance, new results on spatial growth patterns in Europe are …

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

supplied credit is indeed insignificant when a measure of intermediation quality is included. In turn, the efficiency of …

). Because regulations affecting bank entry varied considerably across states and the industrial organization of the U.S. banking …

allow us to incorporate into the analysis the relevance of spatial effects in the processes of regional growth in Europe …

economic development level of Western Europe (EU15). The analysis consists of two steps. First, the hypothesis of income level …

This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays … plants. With respect to the underlying causes, we find evidence that the regional differences in allocative efficiency are …