 The eurozone financial crisis and bank efficiency asymmetries: Peripheral versus core economiesGrigorios Asimakopoulos, Georgios Chortareas and Michail Xanthopoulos The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2018, vol. 18, issue C, - Abstract: This paper assesses the impact of the financial crisis on the levels of banking efficiency within the Eurozone. We examine if the crisis had asymmetric effects on bank efficiency across different regions of the Eurozone, comparing the banks in the financially stressed European periphery to those in the surplus economies of the core during 2005–2012. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure bank efficiency and the Brockett and Golany (1996) test to identify group-based differences in efficiency. Our results indicate a gradual convergence process in efficiency between the banks of the core and periphery countries up to 2008. This process is reversed with the escalation of the financial crisis from 2009 to 2012 and the pattern of bank performance becomes asymmetric. Moreover, our findings suggest a more benign impact of the crisis on the core banks, which anyway outperform peripheral banks throughout the period considered. Keywords: Bank efficiency; Convergence; Financial crisis; Core-periphery; Data envelopment analysis; Mann-Whitney rank statistic (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:joecas:v:18:y:2018:i:c:6 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeca.2018.e00099 Access Statistics for this article The Journal of Economic Asymmetries is currently edited by A.G. Malliaris More articles in The Journal of Economic Asymmetries from Elsevier |
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