Concentration, competition, efficiency and profitability of the Turkish banking sector in the post-crises period

Banks and Bank Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 106-115

  Abbasoglu, Osman Furkan ^a   Aysan, Ahmet Faruk ^b   Günes, Ali ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Concentration; Efficiency and Profitability of the Turkish Banking Sector in the Post Crises Period

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649524587     PISSN: 18167403     EISSN: 19917074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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