ABSTRACT: The study investigates the link between the cost and profit efficiency scores of the
banks in the Central and Eastern European Countries as well as Turkey along with their stock price
performance to determine whether the efficiency scores are priced accordingly in bank stocks.
Changes in efficiency scores of banks, obtained from Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model, are
regressed against their stock price performance by applying fixed effects panel regression technique.
Empirical results indicate that changes in profit efficiency estimates have a positive and significant
impact on stock returns; however, a significant but negative relationship is found between changes in
cost efficiency and stock returns.