We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate … different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate … different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … and we identify four signifficantly different technology regimes. Only small, retail focused banks exhibit cost …

compensation spurred average turnover rates driven by CEOs at poorly performing banks. Other than that, banks' responses to raise … fixed compensation sufficed to retain the vast majority of non-CEO executives and those at well performing banks. We fail to … find evidence that banks with executives that are more affected by the bonus cap became less risky. In fact, numerous …

compensation spurred average turnover rates driven by CEOs at poorly performing banks. Other than that, banks‘ responses to raise … fixed compensation sufficed to retain the vast majority of non-CEO executives and those at well performing banks. We fail to … find evidence that banks with executives that are more affected by the bonus cap became less risky. In fact, numerous …

compensation did not induce an executive director exodus from EU banking because banks raised fixed compensation sufficiently to … retain executives. However, risk-adjusted bank performance deteriorated, consistent with reduced incentives to exert effort … and insurance effects associated with fixed compensation components. We also find that banks with directors that are more …

lowering variable compensation while complying with the cap. At the same time, banks' risk-adjusted performance deteriorated … to abandon the industry. Banks indemnified executives sufficiently for the shock to retain them by raising fixed and … due to increased idiosyncratic risk. Collateral damage for the financial system as a whole appears modest though, as …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … and we identify four signifficantly different technology regimes. Only small, retail focused banks exhibit cost …