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Inside the Black Box: What Explains Differences in the Efficiencies of Financial Institutions?

Berger, Allen N.; Mester, Loretta J. - Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business - 1997

Over the past several years, substantial research effort has gone into measuring the efficiency of financial … measured efficiency. This paper examines several possible sources, including differences in efficiency concept, measurement …

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What Explains the Dramatic Changes in Cost and Profit Performance of the U.S. Banking Industry?

Berger, Allen N.; Mester, Loretta J. - Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business - 1999

from the cross-section efficiency literature. Our most striking result is that during 1991-1997, cost productivity worsened …

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The effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance: Evidence from Chinese banks

Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks during the 1996-2006 period. We construct a new measure, economies of diversification, and compare the results to those of the more conventional focus indices, which are based on...

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The effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance: Evidence from Chinese banks

Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2009

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Bank ownership and efficiency in China: what lies ahead in the world's largest nation?

Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - 2007

dominant 'big four' state-owned banks. This paper seeks to help predict the effects of this change by analysing the efficiency … efficiency. We present corroborating robustness checks and offer several credible mechanisms through which minority foreign … owners can increase Chinese bank efficiency. These findings suggest that minority foreign ownership of the big four is likely …

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The effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance: Evidence from Chinese banks

Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks during the 1996-2006 period. We construct a new measure, economies of diversi-fication, and compare the results to those of the more conventional focus indices, which are based on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148603