This paper summarizes research on U.S. bank cost and profit functions, and their policy implications. The purpose is to provide a backdrop for the likely implications of European financial integration. Scale and scope economies in banking are not found to be important, except for the smallest...

This paper examines the efficiency and price effects of mergers by applying a frontier profit function to data on bank `megamergers'. We find that merged banks experience a statistically significant 16 percentage point average increase in profit efficiency rank relative to other large banks....

Synergies in providing financial services can reduce costs due to joint production (cost economies of scope) or raise revenues due to joint consumption (revenue economies of scope). Cost economies of scope between bank deposits and loans were found to be small elsewhere. Revenue economies of...

This paper examines the efficiency and price effects of mergers by applying a frontier profit function to data on bank quot;megamergers.quot; We find that merged banks experience a statistically significant 16 percentage point average increase in profit efficiency rank relative to other large...

Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities and as the emergence of talent as the new stakeholder in the firm. This paper examines the role of trade integration for the changing nature of the corporation. International trade leads to a 'war for...

This paper develops a theory which investigates how firms' choice of corporate organization is affecting firm performance and the nature of competition in international markets. We develop a model in which firms' organisational choices determine heterogeneity across firms in size and...