Against a background of far-reaching structural change in the banking sector, this article
reviews the recent academic literature on developments in European banking. European …

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition
in the banking industry. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided …

This paper assesses the relative technical efficiency of institutions operating in a market that
has been significantly affected by environmental and market factors in recent years, the …

This paper compares parametric and non-parametric estimates of productivity change in
European banking between 1994 and 2000. Productivity change has also been further …

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 …

This paper determines management behaviour for European savings banks between 1990
and 1998. Following the Granger causality approach of Berger and DeYoung [Journal of …

This paper examines the impact of changes in bank governance on bank performance for a
sample of commercial banks operating in SE Asia between 1990 and 2003. We identify …

We employ the directional technology distance function and provide estimates of bank
efficiency and productivity change across Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries …

In this paper we focus on the assumption of a common efficient frontier when performing an
efficiency study for the banking sector. The fact that environmental factors that are not …

This paper attempts to estimate comparable efficiency scores for European banks operating
in the Single Market in the EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks …