Efficiency in European Banking


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This study examines the current state of banking within Europe. It describes how banks are experiencing greater deregulation, allowing for stronger competition and a more restrictive regulation of supervision. This has led to corporate restructuring within the banking industry.




European Banking


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IT and European Bank Performance


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This book provides a detailed insight into the role of IT in European banking and investigates whether IT investments in hardware, software and other IT services have influenced bank performance. It considers the central question of whether or not the massive spending on IT by banks has improved their performance or productivity




The Changing Financial Landscape


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This book offers new insights and perspectives on the financial and banking sector in Europe with a special focus on Central and Southeastern European countries. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary sources and datasets, the book examines both the financial development and performance of the real sector of the economy and the impact and involvement of the banking sector. The contributions offer new insights into current financial innovations and discuss best practices in innovative financial solutions. They also highlight new perspectives in finance and analyze characteristic problems in the real and banking sectors in various European countries. The insights and financial solutions presented in this book will be of interest to scholars of finance and financial economics as well as practitioners in the financial industry and policy makers.




Efficiency and Stock Performance in European Banking


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During the past decades, competitive pressures have increasingly driven banks to change the strategic focus on generating returns to shareholders. All things being equal, cost efficient banks should be more profitable and therefore generate greater shareholder returns. The purpose of this paper is to contribute further evidence on bank efficiency by defining alternative efficiency measures and investigating the link between such measures and the market performance of financial institutions. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) we estimate measures of bank cost efficiency for a sample of European banks listed in the year 2000. The results seem to indicate that percentage change in stock prices reflect percentage change in cost efficiency, particularly those derived from DEA. This suggests that stocks of cost efficient banks tend to outperform their inefficient counterparts.




Competition and Efficiency in a Unified European Banking Market


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Drawing on several years of research on competition, concentration, efficiency, and performance in the European banking market, Bikker (senior economist, De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands) explains characteristics of the banking industry and provides a detailed comparative analysis of various b




The New Way of Continental European Universal Banking


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Scientific Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1 (A), University of Graz (Banking & Finance), course: 17. Austrian Banking & Finance Working Group in Graz, 2003, language: English, abstract: The goal of this paper is to investigate how the European Banking environment has changed dramatically over the past years. Based on new studies the author will present the Modern Financial Intermediation Theory from Allen and Santomero (2001) and Recent Banking Efficiency Studies from Van Dijcke (2000) and Ali/ Gstaach (2000), in order to be able to derive new conclusions for the Continental European Universal Banking System. The paper presents a possible new structure of the European Banking System, which will show 3 major segments of local, national and international Banks. Finally the author will draw conclusions of such changes on the Monetary policy of the European Union.




The Measurement of Productive Efficiency


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This work focuses on measuring and explaining producer performance. The authors view performance as a function of the state of technology and economic efficiency, with the former defining a frontier relation between inputs and outputs; the former incorporating waste and misallocation relative to this frontier. They show that insights can be gained by allowing for the possibility of a divergence between the economic objective and actual performance, and by associating this inefficiency with causal variables subject to managerial or policy influence. Derived from a series of lectures held on techniques and applications of the three approaches to the construction of production frontiers and measure of efficiency, this work will be an essential reference to scholars of a variety of disciplines who are involved with quantitative methods or policy.