Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank’s own implicit input price … substantial measurement error. In this paper, we examine the magnitude and direction of this error in cost and profit efficiency …

efficiency (CE). We categorise mergers a success that fulfill simultaneously two criteria. First, merged institutes must exhibit … year above efficiency changes of non-merging banks. We employ this taxonomy to characterise (successful) mergers in terms …

Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at … of performance in response to efficiency improvements remain often unclear on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate … traditional efficiency scores with stochastic cost and alternative profit frontier analysis. Then, we explicitly allow for … different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal …

or cost savings. We suggest a united approach to measure competition and efficiency simultaneously to test this … hypothesis. We estimate bank-specific Lerner indices as measures of competition and test if cost and profit efficiency are … are small from an economical perspective. -- Savings banks ; competition ; efficiency ; quiet life hypothesis …

This paper investigates the forces driving output growth, namely technological, efficiency, and input changes, in 80 … efficiency levels, technological change, and the development of capital and labor elasticities. However, a consistent finding …