The performance of the Greek banking system in view of the EMU: Results from a non-parametric approach

Economic Modelling

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 571-592

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

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Banking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Productivity; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037401285     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(01)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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