Altunbas, Y., Chakravarty, S.P., 2001. Frontier cost functions and bank efficiency. Economics Letters 72, 233-240.
Altunbas, Y., Gardener, E.P.M., Molyneyx, P., Moore, B., 2001. Efficiency in European banking. European Economic Review 45, 193 1-1955.
Bauer, P.W., 1990. Recent developments in the econometric estimation of frontiers. Journal of Econometrics 46, 39-56.
Berger, A.N., 1995. The relationship between capital and earnings in banking. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 27, 404-43 1.
Berger, A.N., Humphrey, D.B., 1997. Efficiency of financial institutions: International survey and directions for future research. European Journal of Operational Research 98, 175-2 12.
- Bikker, J.A., 2002. Efficiency and cost differences across countries in a unified European banking market. Kredit and Kapital 35, 344-380.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Casu, B., Molyneux, P., 2003. A comparative study of efficiency in European banking. Applied Economics 35, 1865-1876.
- Dietsch, M., Weill, L., 1998. Banking efficiency and European integration: productivity, cost and profit approaches. Presented at the 21st Colloquium of the Societe Universitaire Europeene de Recherches Financieres, Frankfurt, October.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Diewert, W.E., Wales, T.J., 1987. Flexible functional forms and global curvature conditions. Econometrica 55, 43-68.
English, M., Grosskopf, S., Hayes, K., Yaisawarng, 5., 1993. Output allocative and technical efficiency of banks. Journal of Banking and Finance 17, 349-366.
- European Commission, 1997. Impact on services: credit institutions and banking. Single Market Review, subseries II, vol. 4, London: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities and Kogon Page Earthscan.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Farrell, M.J., 1957. The measurement of productive efficiency. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, CXX, Part 3, 253-290.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Gill, J., King, G., 2004. What to do when your Hessian does not invert. Alternatives to model respecification in nonlinear estimation. Sociological Research 32, 1-34.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Greene, W.H., 1980. On the estimation of a flexible frontier production problem. Journal of Econometrics 13, 101-115.
Humphrey, D.B., Vale, B., 2004. Scale economies, bank mergers, and electronic payments: a spline function approach. Journal of Banking and Finance 28, 1671-1696.
Hunter, W.C., Timme, S.G., 1991. Technological change in large US commercial banks. Journal of Business 64, 339-362.
Kumbhakar, S.C., 1987. The specification of technical and allocative inefficiency in stochastic production and profit frontiers. Journal of Econometrics 34, 335-348.
Kumbhakar, S.C., 1997. Modeling allocative inefficiency in a translog cost function and cost share equations: An exact relationship. Journal of Econometrics 76, 35 1-356.
- Kumbhakar, S.C., Lovell, C.A.K., 2000. Stochastic frontier analysis. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Kumbhakar, S.C., Tsionas, E.G., 2005. Measuring technical and allocative inefficiency in the translog cost system: A Bayesian approach. Journal of Econometrics 126, 355-384.
Lozano-Vivas, A., Pastor, J.T., Pastor, J.M., 2002. An efficiency comparison of European banking systems operating under different environmental conditions. Journal of Productivity Analysis 18, 5 9-77.
Maietta, O.W., 2002. The decomposition of cost inefficiency into technical and allocative components with panel data of Italian dairy farms. European Review of Agricultural Economics 27, 473-495.
Maudos, J., Pastor, J.M., Perez, F., Quesada, J., 2002. Cost and profit efficiency in European banks. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 12, 33-58.
Pastor, J.T., Lozano, A., Pastor, J.M., 1997. Efficiency of European banking systems: a correction by environmental variables, Working paper EC 97-12, Valencia: Istituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Economicas.
- Schmidt, P., 1984. An error structure for system of translog cost and share equations. Econometrics workshop paper 8309, Department of Economics, Mishigan State University, MI.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Schmidt, P., and C.A.K. Lovell, 1979. Estimating technical and allocative inefficiency relative to stochastic production and cost frontiers. Journal of Econometrics 9, 343-66.
- Tierney, L., 1994. Markov chains for exploring posterior distributions (with discussion). Annals of Statistics 22, 1701-1762.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now