Are cooperatives the weakest link in European banking? A non-parametric metafrontier approach

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1946-1957

  Kontolaimou, Alexandra ^a   Tsekouras, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cooperative banking firms; Metafrontier; Productive efficiency; Technology gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953535509     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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