Assessing output and productivity growth in the banking industry

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1317-1340

  Athanasoglou, Panayiotis P ^a   Georgiou, Evangelia A ^a   Staikouras, Christos C ^b  

^a Bank of Greece ^*  (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bank output; Labor quality; Tornqvist index; Total factor productivity; User cost approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350591854     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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