Kuc, Matěj; Teplý, Petr - 2019
Our aim is to empirically assess differences in behaviour and performance of European cooperative and commercial banks … ownership structures based on a data set of nearly 1,000 banks from 11 European countries for the 2009-2015 period. Our findings … are threefold. First, we find that commercial banks are more profitable than cooperative banks in all three metrics used …