Banking inefficiency in Central and Eastern European countries under a quadratic loss function

Emerging Markets Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-178

  Koutsomanoli Filippaki, Anastasia ^a   Mamatzakis, Emmanuel ^b   Staikouras, Christos ^c  

^a Ministry of Economy and Finance   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking inefficiency; Long run equilibrium; Rational expectations; Speed of adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049101970     PISSN: 15660141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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