Efficiency of the Greek banking system in view of the EMU: A heteroscedastic stochastic frontier approach

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 813-829

  Christopoulos, Dimitris K ^a   Lolos, Sarantis E G ^a   Tsionas, Efthymios G ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking; Efficiency; Heteroscedatic frontier model; Liberalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036891588     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-8938(02)00174-6     Document Type: Article

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