Efficiency in banking: Empirical evidence from the Czech Republic

Economics of Planning

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 225-244

  Matoušek, Roman ^a   Taci, Anita ^b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banks; Czech Republic; Efficiency; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 29444454136     PISSN: 00130451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10644-005-5059-4     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. L. Allen R. Anoop 1996 Operational efficiency in banking: An international comparison Journal of Banking and Finance 20 655-672 10.1016/0378-4266(95)00026-7
2. A.N. Berger 1993 Distribution-free estimates of efficiency in the U.S. banking industry and tests of the standard assumptions Journal of Productivity Analysis 4 261-292 10.1007/BF01073413
3. A.N. Berger D.B. Humphrey 1997 Efficiency of financial institutions: international survey and directions for future research European Journal of Operational Research 90 175-212
4. A.N. Berger L.J. Mester 1997 Inside the black box: What explains differences in efficiencies of financial institutions Journal of Banking and Finance 21 895-947
5. A.N. Berger D.B. Humphrey 1991 The dominance of inefficiencies over scale and product mix economies in banking Journal of Monetary Economics 28 117-148 10.1016/0304-3932(91)90027-L
6. A.N. Berger D. Hancock D.B. Humphrey 1993 Bank efficiency derived from the profit function Journal of Banking and Finance 17 317-347
7. A.N. Berger G.A. Hanweck D.B. Humphrey 1987 Competitive viability in banking: Scale, scope and product mix economies Journal of Monetary Economics 20 501-520 10.1016/0304-3932(87)90039-0
8. A.N. Berger W.C. Hunter S.G. Timme 1993 The efficiency of financial institutions: A review and preview of research past, present and future Journal of Banking and Finance 17 221-249
9. Buch, C.M. (1996), 'Creating efficient banking systems: Theory and evidence from Eastern Europe. Kieler Studien No. 277, Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck).
10. S. Carbo E.P.M. Gardener J. Williams 2002 Efficiency in banking: empirical evidence from the savings bank sector The Manchester School 70 204-228 10.1111/1467-9957.00292
11. L. Drake M.J.B. Hall 2003 Efficiency in Japanese Banking: An empirical analysis Journal of Banking and Finance 27 891-917 10.1016/ S0378-4266(02)00240-6
12. M.J. Farrel 1957 The measurement of productive efficiency Journal of Royal Statistical Society, A 120 253-281
13. G.D. Ferrier K.C.A. Lovell 1990 Measuring cost efficiency in banking: econometric and linear programming evidence Journal of Econometrics 46 229-245 10.1016/0304-4076(90)90057-Z
14. W.H. Greene 1999 Frontier production function in M.H. Pesaran P. Schmidt ed. Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Vol. II: Microeconomics Blackwell Oxford
15. W.C. Hunter S.G. Timme 1986 Technical change, organizational form, and the structure of bank production Journal of Money, Credit and Banking XVIII 152-166
16. W.C. Hunter S.G. Timme 1995 Core deposits and physical capital: A reexamination of bank scale economies and efficiency with quasi-fixed inputs Journal of Money, Credit and Banking XXVII 1 165-185
17. L. Konopielko 1997 A note on Polish bank consolidation The Journal of Comparative Economics 25 441-447
18. E. Kraft D. Tirtiroglu 1998 Bank efficiency in Croatia: A stochastic-frontier analysis Journal of Comparative Economics 26 282-300 10.1006/jcec.1998.1517
19. R. Matoušek 2002 Banking sector restructuring and debt consolidation in the Czech Republic in D. Dickinson A. ed. Mullineux Financial and Monetary Integration in the New Europe: Convergence Between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe Edward Elgar Press London 342-370
20. P. Molyneux Y. Altunbas E. Gardener 1996 Efficiency in European Banking Wiley Chichester
21. P. Schmidt R.C. Sickles 1984 Production frontiers and panel data Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 2 367-374
22. L. Weill 2003 Banking efficiency in transition economies: The role of foreign ownership Economics of Transition 11 569-592 10.1111/ 1468-0351.00155