Efficiency and risk in European banking

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1315-1326

  Fiordelisi, Franco ^a,b   Marques Ibanez, David ^c   Molyneux, Phil ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Banking risk; Capital; Efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952740420     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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