Financial liberalization and banking efficiency: Evidence from Turkey

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-195

  Denizer, Cevdet A ^a   Dinc, Mustafa ^a   Tarimcilar, Murat ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Liberalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249716225     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0035-9     Document Type: Article

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