• closedAccess   Constructing a financial inclusion index for Mexican municipalities 

      Dircio Palacios Macedo, María del Carmen; Cruz-García, Paula; Hernandez-Trillo, Fausto; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2023)
      Access to financial services varies sharply around the world among countries but also within regions and municipalities in the same country. To identify this important variation multivariate indices have been considered ...
    • closedAccess   Costs, revenues and performance in Spanish banking:a comparative analysis of pre- and early crisis years 

      Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Garcia-Alcober, Maria P.; Illueca, Manuel Taylor and Francis Group (2016-07-14)
      The literature analysing the efficiency of financial institutions has evolved rapidly over the last 20 years. Most research has focused on the input side, analysing either cost, input technical efficiency or input allocative ...
    • openAccess   Local government efficiency: determinants and spatial interdependence 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Brun-Martos, Maria Isabel; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      We analyse the determinants of local government efficiency taking into account the presence of spatial interactions among neighbouring municipalities. To do so, first we estimate an efficiency index using the robust order-m ...
    • openAccess   Revisiting the quiet life hypothesis in banking using nonparametric techniques 

      Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Maudos, Joaquín; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Copyright © 2014 Taylor & Francis (2014-12)
      Early studies testing the quiet life hypothesis in banking found strong evidence that banks in more concentrated markets exhibit lower cost efficiency levels. More recent studies have reexamined the issue in different ...