financial intermediation and the supremacy of banks' efficiency. This study examines the concurrent effects of bank risk …, efficiency and cost of financial intermediation of Bangladeshi commercial banks. The Two-Step System GMM (2GMM) estimators of …-level, industry-level, and macroeconomic-level phenomenon. Efficiency gains cost the spread of banks' financial intermediation, and …

This article proposes a comprehensive introduction into the analysis and calculating costs and identifies the different … areas of activities in company which can lead to improving the quality and reducing costs by using the PAF cost model. The … objectives which should be achieved. PAF model is the most frequently used model for the quality costs analysis at present. In …

Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a … these factors into account, costs vary across providers because of differences in efficiency. Such differences offer clues … about good practice that can lead to improvements in the system as a whole. The role of efficiency is illustrated by …

or cost savings. We suggest a united approach to measure competition and efficiency simultaneously to test this … hypothesis. We estimate bank-specific Lerner indices as measures of competition and test if cost and profit efficiency are … are small from an economical perspective. -- Savings banks ; competition ; efficiency ; quiet life hypothesis …

Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank’s own implicit input price … substantial measurement error. In this paper, we examine the magnitude and direction of this error in cost and profit efficiency …