ORCID
Anna Filipek: 0009-0001-0036-6761
Krzysztof Spirzewski: 0000-0002-9646-5667
Keywords
banking sector, efficiency, financial system, DEA method
Abstract
The banking system is one of the most important components of the financial systems on which modern economies are largely based. The occurrence of instability in this area may lead to serious economic problems. Therefore, the interest of researchers in this area has been focused mainly on assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the banking sector, which will allow for identifying possible areas for improvement. In this paper, we discuss the use of efficiency as one of the basic measures used to assess the functioning of the banking sector. The aim of this study is to examine the efficiency of the banking sector in Poland, and then to compare the obtained results with selected countries of the region in 2014–2018. The paper presents theoretical considerations in the field of the financial system, the banking system and the efficiency of entities. In the empirical part of the paper, we conducted our own research on the efficiency of the banking sector in Poland using the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method. The results were compared with those obtained in selected countries in the region. The selected countries of the region are: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.
Acknowledgments
The cost of editing selected articles published in the Journal of Banking and Financial Economics in the 2022– 2024 is covered by funding under the program “Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych” of the Ministry of Education and Science under agreement No. RCN/SN/0321/2021/1. Task title: “Verification and correction of scientific articles and their abstracts”. Funding value: 21 197,00 PLN; The task consists of professional editing of articles published in English.
Recommended Citation
Filipek, A., & Spirzewski, K. (2023). Efficiency of the banking sector in Polandcompared to other countries in the region. Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2023(19), 57-84. https://doi.org/10.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2023.1.4
First Page
57
Last Page
84
Page Count
28
Received Date
28 October 2022
Revised Date
13 April 2023
Accept Date
19 April 2023
Online Available Date
22 May 2023
DOI
10.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2023.1.4
JEL Code
C14; G21
Publisher
University of Warsaw
