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 …

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 profitability in euro …

development. In order to measure the quality of financial development we use profit efficiency derived from stochastic frontier …

and are more resilient to negative shocks than its less efficient peers. For this purpose, we measure a bank …'s intermediation quality by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the changing banking environment after the financial … results provide evidence to the importance of swiftly restoring bank profitability in euro area crisis countries through …

, 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 …

such differences in the efficiency levels across economies. In this paper we try to assess these issues by pursuing a …

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

The proponents of decentralization argue that it improves economic growth by increasing government efficiency and …

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 …