The impact of banking regulations on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Cross-country evidence

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 294-302

  Pasiouras, Fotios ^a   Tanna, Sailesh ^b   Zopounidis, Constantin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking; Efficiency; Regulations; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449637697     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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