Assessing the efficiency in operations of a large Greek bank branch network adopting different economic behaviors

Economic Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 559-574

  Giokas, Dimitris I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bank branches; Banking; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Loglinear frontier method

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649126354     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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