Testing the relationship between competition and efficiency in banking: A panel data analysis

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-137

  Casu, Barbara ^a   Girardone, Claudia ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; Competition; Efficiency; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349093385     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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