## Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 23, 2007_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 23, 2007
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835793.002

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### 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 discusses results from estimates of cross-country banking sector contestability, and the determinants of efficiency and contestability.

### Analysis of banking sector efficiency and contestability
- Comparative performance analysis:
  - Compares bank performance indicators for banks in Slovenia, the European Monetary Union, and new member states.
- Econometric estimates:
  - Presents cross-country econometric estimates of banking sector cost efficiency.
- Contestability and determinants:
  - Discusses results from estimates of cross-country banking sector contestability.
  - Examines determinants of both efficiency and contestability.

### Subject areas and keywords
- 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

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- **Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues, IMF Country Report No. 07/182, May 2, 2007**
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