What determines differences in foreign bank efficiency? Australian evidence

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-309

  Sturm, Jan Egbert ^a,b   Williams, Barry ^a,c  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barriers to entry; Distance functions; Extreme bounds analysis; Following clients; Foreign bank efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953140095     PISSN: 10424431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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