Foreign bank entry, deregulation and bank efficiency: Lessons from the Australian experience

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1775-1799

  Sturm, Jan Egbert ^a,b,c   Williams, Barry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c University of Konstanz and Thurgau Institute of Economics   (Switzerland)

^d BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Deregulation; Foreign banks; Malmquist indices; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442670467     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2003.06.005     Document Type: Article

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