From 1996 to 2015, total assets at Canadian and foreign banks operating in Canada grew four-times in size. This growth … describe how the Canadian banks earn revenue, fund business activities, and pay expenses. The success of the Canadian banking … trends in Canadian banking. Estimating a reduced form model similar to DeBoskey and Jiang (2012), I find no evidence that the …

cost efficiency and returns to scale (RTS) in Canadian banking. I estimate a transcendental log cost function for the six … largest Canadian commercial banks which account for approximately 90 percent of chartered bank assets over the 1996 … and price concavity. To my knowledge, this is the first paper to find evidence of constant RTS among the Canadian banks …

Using a model based on the work of Duarte and Eisenbach (2015), I stress test the Canadian banking system using … publicly available data from 1996 to 2015. I find that the Canadian banking system is resilient to all but the most extreme … aggregate vulnerability (AV), I find that the Canadian banking system has become more vulnerable to a fire-sale episode since …

I compare returns to scale in the U.S. and Canadian banking system from 1996 to 2015. I estimate a parametric trans … economies. Comparatively, I find constant RTS for the Canadian banks. They paid fewer costs per asset, particularly lower labour …