Technology gaps in European banking: Put the blame on inputs or outputs?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1798-1808

  Kontolaimou, Alexandra ^a   Kounetas, Konstantinos ^a   Mourtos, Ioannis ^b   Tsekouras, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking firms; Data envelopment analysis; Metafrontier; Production efficiency; Technology gaps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862593102     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.05.028     Document Type: Article

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