Alexia Ventouri
King's College London
19 Papers
71 Citations
Alexia Ventouri is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data envelopment analysis & Interest rate. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Alexia Ventouri include University of Sussex & Brunel University London.
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Papers
Bank supervision, regulation, and efficiency: evidence from the European Union
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the dynamics between key regulatory and supervisory policies and various aspects of commercial bank efficiency and performance for a sample of 22 EU countries over 2000-2008.
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Financial freedom and bank efficiency: Evidence from the European Union
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between the economic freedom counterparts of the Heritage Foundation index and bank efficiency levels and show that the effects of financial freedom on bank efficiency tend to be more pronounced in countries with freer political systems in which governments formulate and implement sound policies and higher quality governance.
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Financial Frictions, Bank Efficiency and Risk: Evidence from the Eurozone
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a simultaneous equations approach to investigate the dynamics between financial frictions, efficiency and risk for eurozones commercial banks, and find that policies aimed at constraining banks degree of openness may ultimately direct management choices towards riskier investments.
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The effects of Board of Directors' education on firms' credit ratings
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the educational attainment of a firm's board of directors on its credit rating was examined using a data set of 1,618 firms from 39 countries.
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Credit market freedom and cost efficiency in US state banking
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between the credit market freedom counterparts of the economic freedom index drawn from the Fraser institute database and bank cost efficiency levels across the U.S. states.
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