efficiency comparisons across different samples. We use a latent class stochastic frontier model to estimate simultaneously …

products and services to informationally opaque customers, their ability to diversify credit and liquidity risk, and how they … liabilities to reduce the probability of bank runs. These aspects of banking affect a bankś choice of risk vs. expected return …, which, in turn, affects bank performance. Banks have an incentive to reduce risk to protect the valuable charter from …

financial intermediation and the supremacy of banks' efficiency. This study examines the concurrent effects of bank risk … risk-taking negatively affects the return. Cost-efficient banks are taking more credit risk; however, more efficiency gains …-taking (efficiency) behaviour of banks. Market competition enhances the risk and efficiency and reduces banks' interest spread. Finally …

business environment for such firms, risk-taking behaviors play a key role in their efficiency. In addition, the level of … capitalization has become a more critical tool to counterbalance risk and efficiency. Therefore, we aimed to assess the relationship … between efficiency, risk, and the level of capitalization in a sample of Turkish securities by covering the detailed data of …

order must be based on new models of banking management. The macroeconomic risk factors may have a significant impact on the … and operational efficiency. The most important objective that banks which want to assume the responsibility of running a … context of banking performance and minimal risk. …