Impact of Financial Liberalization on Banking Sectors Performance from Central and Eastern European Countries

Alin Marius Andries and Bogdan Capraru
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PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: In this paper we analyse the impact of financial liberalization and reforms on the banking performance in 17 countries from CEE for the period 2004–2008 using a two-stage empirical model that involves estimating bank performance in the first stage and assessing its determinants in the second one. From our analysis it results that banks from CEE countries with higher level of liberalization and openness are able to increase cost efficiency and eventually to offer cheaper services to clients. Banks from non-member EU countries are less cost efficient but experienced much higher total productivity growth level, and large sized banks are much more cost efficient than medium and small banks, while small sized banks show the highest growth in terms of productivity.

Date: 2013
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