The Profit-Structure Relationship in Banking--Tests of Market-Power and Efficient-Structure Hypotheses.
This paper enters the debate between market-power and efficient-structure explanations of the profit-structure relationship in banking by including direct measures of X-efficiency and scale efficiency in the analysis. Structural models of two market-power hypotheses and two efficient-structure hypotheses are expressed in testable reduced form profit equations. This methodology is applied to thirty cross-sections of 1980s banking data. These data are somewhat consistent with one of the market-power and one of the efficient-structure hypotheses. However, none of the hypotheses are overwhelmingly important in explaining bank profits, suggesting that alternative theories be pursued. Copyright 1995 by Ohio State University Press.
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1995
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Authors: | Berger, Allen N |
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. - Blackwell Publishing. - Vol. 27.1995, 2, p. 404-31
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Blackwell Publishing |
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