Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues
May 23, 2007
Summary
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the challenges that the Republic of Slovenia will face in the coming years. It examines the efficiency of the Slovene banking sector in the European Union context. The paper analyzes indicators of bank efficiency by comparing performance indicators for banks in Slovenia, the European Monetary Union, and new member states. It presents results from cross-country econometric estimates of banking sector cost efficiency. The paper also discusses results from estimates of cross-country banking sector contestability, and the determinants of efficiency and contestability.
Subject: Banking, Capital markets, Expenditure, Financial markets, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Stock markets
Keywords: bank, bank efficiency, Capital markets, chapter III, chapter IV, CR, Europe, expenditure reform, Fiscal rules, ISCR, Slovene bank, Stock markets
Pages:
69
Volume:
2007
DOI:
Issue:
182
Series:
Country Report No. 2007/182
Stock No:
1SVNEA2007001
ISBN:
9781451835793
ISSN:
1934-7685







