Relating macro-economic efficiency to financial efficiency: A comparison of fifteen OECD countries over an eighteen year period

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-78

  Lozano Vivas, Ana ^a   Pastor, Jesús T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Banking productivity; Convergence; Frontier production approach; Macroeconomic productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 32944465265     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-7129-7     Document Type: Article

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