Market entry, privatization and bank performance in transition

Economics of Transition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 579-610

  Fries, Steven ^a   Neven, Damien ^b,c   Seabright, Paul ^c,d   Taci, Anita ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c CEPR ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

Author keywords

Banking; Cost functions; Imperfect competition; Transition

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; MARKET TRANSITION; POST-COMMUNISM; PRIVATIZATION;

EID: 33749258602     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2006.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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