Is greater stakeholder engagement associated with greater stability? We provide readers
with novel empirical evidence that this is indeed the case. Cooperative banks (where …

China's banking system has a relatively high level of state control, while an important task in
regulating the banking system is to manage the profitability of banks. Using the stochastic …

Banking plays an important role in economy acting as an intermediation institution and
funding sources for business. When a bank is inefficient in the use of cost, there will be …

This paper investigates the presence of spatial dependence in the non-performing loans
(NPLs) ratio of small Italian cooperative banks. As these financial intermediaries operate in a …

Operational efficiency in the retail business is vital in order to be profitable in a competitive
environment. This paper investigates how environmental factors, firm size and time trends …

Measurement and evaluation of the bank's operations efficiency requires analytical
techniques that provide data beyond those available from the standard analysis of financial …

This study aims at analyzing the efficiency of deposit banks using contemporary analytics-
based decision-making techniques within a fuzzy environment. Specifically, a hybrid analytic …

In this study, we use a conventional Probit model to investigate the effects of banks' cost
efficiency on innovation in Italy. In particular, we assess whether the efficiency–innovation …

This paper analyzes technical and scale efficiency of Austrian savings and cooperative
banks. Non‐profit objectives are also considered with respect to input–output choice, which …

This paper investigates the role of microeconomic and macroeconomic factors on Italian
bank risk taking, paying particular attention on the differences between cooperative and non …