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Author: | Altunbas, Y. (et al.) |
Title: | Efficiency in European banking |
Journal: | European Economic Review
2001 : DEC, VOL. 45:10, p. 1931-1955 |
Index terms: | BANKING EFFICIENCY EUROPE |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This paper extends the established literature on modelling the cost characteristics of banking markets by applying the flexible Fourier functional form and stochastic cost frontier methodologies to estimate scale economies, X-inefficiencies and technical change for a large sample of European banks between 1989 and 1997. |
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