A comparative study of the cost efficiency of italian bank conglomerates

Managerial Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3-23

  Casu, Barbara ^a   Girardone, Claudia ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; DEA; Financial conglomerates; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444245383     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350210768031     Document Type: Article

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