The efficiency of European regional banking;L'efficacité des opérations bancaires régionales européennes

Regional Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 321-330

  Williams, Jonathan ^a   Gardener, Edward P M ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Financial deregulation; Regional banking; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DEREGULATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FINANCIAL SYSTEM;

EUROPE;

EID: 0037635295     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034340032000074361     Document Type: Article

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