Banking economic efficiency in the deregulation period: Results from heteroscedastic stochastic frontier models

Manchester School

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 656-676

  Christopoulos, Dimitris K ^a   Tsionas, Efthymios G ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

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EID: 0039561410     PISSN: 14636786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9957.00276     Document Type: Article

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