The efficiency of financial institutions: Page 1 Journal of Banking and Finance 17 (1993) 221-249.
North-Holland The efficiency of financial institutions: A review and preview of research past …

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 …

This article designs a framework for evaluating the causes, consequences, and future
implications of financial services industry consolidation, reviews the extant research …

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS among very large financial institutions are becoming more
frequent in markets around the world, attracting the attention of policymakers, researchers …

This paper examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions, efficiency, and
scale economies in the US life insurance industry. We estimate cost and revenue efficiency …

Drawing a framework from the organizational economics literature this study examines the
determinants of corporate (ie underwriting and investment related) financial performance in …

This article studies the relationship between company size and performance for small and
medium-sized Portuguese companies. Using dynamic panel estimators, we conclude that …

This chapter reviews the modern frontier efficiency and productivity methodologies that have
been developed to analyze firm performance, emphasizing applications to the insurance …

The objective of this paper is to provide new information on the performance of efficiency
estimation methods by applying a wide range of econometric and mathematical …

The purpose of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on frontier efficiency
measurement in the international insurance industry, a topic of great interest in the academic …