In response to fundamental changes in regulation and technology, the financial industry is
undergoing an unprecedented wave of consolidation. A growing body of empirical literature …

We combine recent findings from the empirical banking literature with established insights
from studies of banking competition and regulation. Motivated by modern theory of financial …

This book provides a compendium to the empirical work investigating the hypotheses
generated by recent banking theory. Such a compendium is overdue. Since the publication …

This paper examines the cost, technical and allocative efficiency of 43 Chinese banks over
the period 1993 to 2000. The goal of this analysis is to identify the change in Chinese banks' …

The paper investigates the efficiency of a sample of Islamic and conventional banks in 10
countries that operate Islamic banking for the period 1996–2002, using an output distance …

During the last few years, the Second Banking Directive has set out the principles of banking
in the single European financial market and provided equal competitive conditions for all …

This paper analyses cost and profit efficiencies in commercial banking in the eight Central
and Eastern European countries that became new members to the European Union …

This paper examines the determinants of profits of Greek banks operating abroad by
developing an integrated model that includes a set of determinants informed by the literature …

This study examines the efficiency of the Japanese banking system utilising the slacks-
based measure. In addition, we also extend the comparative bank modelling methodology …

Our paper aims to check whether financial integration has taken place on the EU banking
markets, by investigating the convergence in banking efficiency for European countries …