Bank efficiency differences in the new EU member states

Baltic Journal of Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-89

  Košak, Marko ^a   Zajc, Peter ^b   Zorić, Jelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Banking; Cee and baltic states; Cost efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954855507     PISSN: 1406099X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1406099x.2009.10840462     Document Type: Article

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