This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the … efficiency score and the efficiency ranking to a change in the design of the frontier. We found that the average scores are … significantly smaller when the transcendental logarithmic functional form is used in the profit efficiency measurement and when the …

243 mergers, we analyze motives for and cost effects of small-scale mergers in German banking. Estimating a frontier cost … function with a time-variable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … efficiency as the acquiring firms. For the post-merger phase, our empirical results provide no evidence for efficiency gains from …

Almost Ideal Demand System. In addition, we suggest a more general way of measuring efficiency that can incorporate a concern … between the risk-incentives literature in banking that ignores the microeconomics of production and the production literature …

impact of efficiency, as well as concentration, on banking competition measured by the Net Interest Margin (NIM), controlling …On the road to the new landscape in EU banking brought on by the financial crisis we assess the relationship between … the level of competitiveness and efficiency. We estimate X-inefficiency for a sample of banks operating in the European …

financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment …, but it appears that the last hope for raising bank efficiency is through ownership reform. Whether ownership reform and … foreign competition can solve China's banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through …

The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of geographical location in the banking sector efficiency of the … role in the efficiency of the banking sector in the Sino-ASEAN region. The significant country's coefficients suggest that … double bootstrapping regression. The empirical evidence suggests that the banking market has an important and significant …

This paper examines the impact of regulatory policies on banking market efficiency using a sample of 678 commercial … Squares method. Focus is on two alternative measures of banking market efficiency: net interest margin and overhead costs … (operating expenses to assets). Elevated levels of these two ratios should indicate a low level of banking efficiency. The …