Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2016.1175725
Financial crisis and bank efficiency: An empirical study of European banks
Alin Marius Andrieș
orcid.org/0000-0002-4415-4197
Silviu Gabriel Ursu
Abstract
This article uses the frontier technique to highlight the differences
in the impact of the global financial crisis on the efficiency of 783
commercial banks from the EU during the period 2004–2010. We
emphasise the distinctions between large and small banks, publicly
traded and privately held banks, as well as the statuses of banks’
country of origin, especially for the year in which they joined the EU
and held eurozone membership. Our results show that the crisis has a
significant and positive im pact on both the cost and profit inefficienciesof the commercial banks from the EU, and that this impact is higher on eurozone banks. In terms of cost efficiency, the most affected by the crisis are the large publicly traded banks, operating in old members of the EU. With regard to the profit inefficiency, the global financial crisis seems to have had a lower impact on the large public banks.
Keywords
Financial crisis; bank efficiency; EU
Hrčak ID:
171737
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2016.
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