of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient.Only mixed support is …

characteristics, such as capital and liquidity. We estimate the new model on the entire panel of US banks, spanning the period 1985q1 … establish that the risk of the relatively large banks and banks that failed in the subprime crisis is higher than the industry …’s average. Thus, we provide a new leading indicator, which is able to forecast future solvency problems of banks. …

/methodology/approach - First, profit efficiency and cost efficiency scores of banks at the firm-year level were estimated using a stochastic … institutional variables play an important role in affecting bank efficiency and additionally banks tend to operate more efficiently …

of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient. Only mixed support is …