Cost Efficiency in UK and Irish Credit Institutions

This paper presents aggregated cost efficiency scores for a balanced panel of British and Irish credit institutions and relates these scores to loan loss reserves as a first step in investigating their usefulness as possible indicators of financial fragility. The efficiency scores are oobtained using the two most popular methods of efficiency measurement - data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the stochastic frontiers approach.

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Year of publication:	2004-04
Authors:	Fitzpatrick, Trevor ; McQuinn, Kieran
Institutions:	Central Bank of Ireland

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Research Technical Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 3/RT/04 35 pages
Classification:	G20 - Financial Institutions and Services. General ; C33 - Models with Panel Data
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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