This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the impact of bank internal organization structure characteristics on costs and productive efficiency. The specific internal organization characteristics examined include centralized versus decentralized 1) decision‐making, 2) service delivery...

The objective of this paper is to examine the empirical link between banking and financial system structure and economic growth, by constructing a cross‐country regression model using data over the 1970–1988 period, for a diverse set of countries. We extend the existing literature by...