Chortareas, Georgios E.; Girardone, Claudia; Ventouri, … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 4, pp. 1223-1231
This paper investigates the dynamics between the financial freedom counterparts of the economic freedom index drawn from the Heritage Foundation database and bank efficiency levels. We rely on a large sample of commercial banks operating in the 27 European Union member states over the 2000s....