In this paper, we estimate the technical and allocative efficiency of Chinese commercial banks using both the stochastic frontier analysis primal system, a parametric method, and minimum convex input requirement set, a nonparametric approach. The effects of state ownership and the introduction...

This paper investigates product-specific scale economies of banks with respect to off-balance sheet operations. The cost benefits from the non-separability of outputs available to banks that imply the role of OBS activities on bank scale economies are also examined. We further test whether the...