Foreign bank entry, bank efficiency and market power in Central and Eastern European Countries

Economics of Transition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 571-598

  Poghosyan, Tigran ^a   Poghosyan, Arsen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bank efficiency; Foreign bank entry; Market power

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EQUITY; OWNERSHIP; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 77958172323     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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