... power should obtain extraordinary income, particularly by charging higher interest rates to their borrowers and lower interest rates to depositors. Banking Product differentiation Quality Cost effectiveness Europe The second phase of this research entails an in‐depth analysis...

... the publication of the seminal papers by Aigner et al. (1977) and Charnes et al. (1978) , both econometric (parametric) and linear programming‐based (non‐parametric) methods have been employed in the estimation of bank efficiency. Banks Cost effectiveness Modelling © Emerald...

... The paper examines the operating efficiency of bank branches of a large commercial bank in Greece. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Greece Commercial banks Cost effectiveness Mathematical programming The wave of reorganization of financial services in Greece in the post‐1989...

... of criteria/ratios such as profitability, liquidity, assets quality, risk and management strategies, etc., whose quantitative expression has many obstacles. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Commercial banks Greece Cost effectiveness Mathematical programming Until the mid‐1980s...