This paper examines the case for efficiency-driven banking sector consolidation in Italy, evaluates its potential … gradually recovers, operational efficiency gains are nonetheless needed to restore large parts of the banking system to healthy … profitability. Banking system consolidation can play a role in facilitating such efficiency gains, but its effectiveness is likely …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and deposit markets in recent years, but banks still operate in a … highcost, high-income system, particularly with respect to retail/services, and efficiency gains have yet to fully materialize …

potential to increase cost efficiency and competition in the banking system …Despite far-reaching banking sector reforms and a prolonged period of macroeconomic stability and strong economic …

The paper analyzes the efficiency and profitability of Japanese banks from 2000-06. It uses a non-parametric approach …, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze banks'' cost and revenue efficiency. The results show that the performance … of Japanese banks has steadily improved since 2001, but there are significant differences within the banking sector, with …

far-reaching banking sector reforms undertaken in Uganda to improve competition and efficiency. Using models that have …There is a concern that the state-dominated, inefficient, and fragile banking systems in many low-income countries … has been associated with a rise in efficiency. Moreover, on average, larger banks and foreign-owned banks have become more …

This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides … the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier … analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of moments system to explain financial development. SSA banks are found …

This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and … approaches and prudential considerations in fostering financial innovation and banking sector competition …

Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the … risktaking map into different levels of welfare for the two parties. A regulator has to trade off efficiency in the financial … sector, which is aided by deregulation, against efficiency in the real economy, which is aided by tighter regulation and a …

This paper presents calculations of the efficiency with which value-added taxes are collected in five transition … relatively high collection efficiency, and the other relatively low efficiency. While lack of detailed information on tax rules …

economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …