Frontier cost functions and bank efficiency

Economics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 233-240

  Altunbas Y ^a   Chakravarty, S P ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; D21; Efficiency; F15; Fourier; G21; G23; Production Function; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035605110     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00218-4     Document Type: Article

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