Noth, Felix; Slotty, Constantin; Hackethal, Andreas - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of IT standardization on bank performance based on a panel of 457 German savings … banks over the period from 1996 to 2006. We measure IT standardization as the fraction of IT expenses for centralized … IT standardization is conducive to cost efficiency. The relation is positive and robust for small and medium-sized banks …