Are private banks more efficient than public banks?

Economics of Transition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 209-244

  Karas, Alexei ^a   Schoors, Koen ^b   Weill, Laurent ^c  

^a Roosevelt Academy   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Ecole de Management de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

Bank efficiency; Foreign ownership; Russia; State ownership

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMETRICS; PRIVATIZATION; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 70949087017     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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