this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the …The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which … “normal” and in “bad” times. These results provide evidence to the importance of swiftly restoring bank pro_tability in euro …

, in causing economic growth convergence patterns. We find that western and northern parts of Europe have higher pairwise … stochastic convergence (and lower intra-country convergence) rates than regions in East and Southeast Europe. Focusing on the …

efficiency of transaction and effectiveness of cooperation between multinational and the regional economic system. The effect of …

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 …

estimated convergence rate is about 3% which is somewhat higher than estimates obtained for the USA and Europe. At the same time …

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 …

European regions the estimation results reveal a substantial correlation between the disturbances of the equation explaining … convergence. -- spatial beta-convergence ; spatial solow model ; spatial systems maximum likelihood estimation ; European regions …