Analysing the determinants of bank efficiency : the case of Italian banks
This thesis investigates the main determinants of Italian banks' cost efficiency over the period 1993-96, by employing a Fourier-flexible stochastic cost frontier in order to measure X-efficiencies and economies of scale. Quality and riskiness of bank outputs are explicitly accounted for in the...
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Bangor University
2000
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322902 |