This paper investigates whether financial intermediary development influences macroeconomic technical efficiency on a … associated with more efficiency. However we find strong evidence that this relationship is conditional on the level of economic … development. The lower economic development the weaker is the impact of financial development on efficiency. That impact can even …

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects estimated technical efficiency at the … country level. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency in a …

This study evaluates whether the development of Islamic banking influences macroeconomic efficiency. Thus, we … approach to estimate technical efficiency at the country level for a sample of 70 countries. We use a unique hand … favours macroeconomic efficiency. Furthermore, we have support for a non-linear relation with efficiency for Islamic banking …

This paper investigates the consistency of efficiency frontier methods on European banking samples. We measure the cost … efficiency of banks from five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland) with three approaches: stochastic …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … the capital ratio on banks’ cost efficiency. We find that such an increase has a positive effect on cost efficiency, the …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the period 2002-2011. Granger-causality tests are performed in a dynamic GMM … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that …

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this … only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the …

This paper aims to analyze the cost efficiency of Belgian banks for the period 1992-2000. Efficiency is measured with … stochastic frontier approach. Our results are: (a) Efficiency level of Belgian banks is about 72%, meaning the existence of … strong potential gains in cost efficiency for Belgian banks. (b) Efficiency of Belgian banks strongly increased between 1992 …

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects estimated technical efficiency at the … country level. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency in a …