Scale and scope economies in the European banking systems

Journal of Multinational Financial Management

Volumn 11, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 515-531

  Cavallo, Laura ^a   Rossi, Stefania P S ^b  

^a Department of Economic Affairs   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Banking sector; Cost efficiency; Economies of scale and scope; G21; Stochastic cost frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041367450     PISSN: 1042444X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1042-444X(01)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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