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 …

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 …

function with a timevariable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … taken over by others are less efficient than the average bank in the same size class, but exhibit on average the same … efficiency as the acquiring firms. For the post-merger phase, our empirical results provide no evidence for efficiency gains from …

productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between …