Heterogeneity of technological regimes and banking efficiency in former socialist economies

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-31

  Poghosyan, Tigran ^a   Kumbhakar, Subal C ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Cost efficiency; Latent class stochastic frontier model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949773283     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-009-0157-3     Document Type: Article

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