Deregulation and productivity decline: the case of Spanish savings banks

Technology-based total factor productivity and benchmarking: New proposals and an application

“…Lovell (1996) found that productivity declined at the end of the 1980s, beginning of the 1990s. For the following period, recent studies find significant productivity increases due to either deregulations (Kumbhakar and Lozano-Vivas 2005), or technological change (e.g., Tortosa-Ausina et al (2008) or Illueca et al (2009)).…”

The Development of the Chinese Financial System and Reform of Chinese Commercial Banks

“…Extensive integration and EU legislative harmonization were expected to bring in more competitions among banks and consequently force them to improve performance. However, the effects were less clear (Grifell and Lovell 1996;Lozano-Vivas, 1998;Casu and Philip, 2003;Caus and Girardone, 2004 Recently, some researchers began to compare the efficiency among different nations or to test the consistency among different frontier methods (Allen and Rai, 1996;Pastor et al, 1997;Bos and Kolari, 2005;Berg et al, 1993;Ferrier and Lovell, 1990;Ferrier et al, 1993;Bauer et al, 1998;Weill, 2004). Berg et al (1993) earlier study of three Nordic countries, Finland, Norway and Sweden found that Sweden had the most efficient banking system while Finland had the worst.…”

Developing a Method for Diagnosing the Banking Industry

“…Interest Income Yue [22] Miller&Noulas [23] Net Income Park [1], Kim&Rhee [24], Grifee-Tatje&Lovell [19] 5. 2단계 <진단> [ Table 2] Four categories of Korea banks Table 4에 나온 가중치를 부여 하였으며, 그 연구 결과는 아래와 같다.…”