Market structure, efficiency and rising consolidation of the banking industry in the Euro Area

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-91

  Kapopoulos, Panayotis ^a,b   Siokis, Fotios ^a,c,d  

^a Alpha Bank   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banks; Disintermediation; Efficiency; Profit structure relationship

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CURRENCY MARKET; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; MONETARY POLICY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12844271164     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2005.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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