Analysing the determinants of bank efficiency: The case of Italian banks

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-227

  Girardone, Claudia ^a   Molyneux, Philip ^b,c   Gardener, Edward P M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ECONOMY OF SCALE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FINANCIAL SERVICES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342309576     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000175334     Document Type: Article

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