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This paper examines the relationship between financial market regulation, country governance and efficiency of …, we employ a non-parametric approach — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) — to estimate the banks' cost and profit efficiency … efficiency. The results suggest that commercial banks in East Asia are relatively profit efficient rather than cost efficient …
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ownership and cost efficiency for Indian banks in 1992-2004. The methodology consists of the joint use of parametric and non …-parametric techniques to estimate efficiency frontiers. Both approaches show that the Indian banking industry, after an initial adjustment … relationship between cost efficiency and ownership structure along with the reform processes, and decreasing mean cost efficiency …
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evidence suggests that the link between capital regulation and banking efficiency is not robust enough to control for other …This paper examines the impact of regulatory policies on banking market efficiency using a sample of 678 commercial …-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank …
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Our research as well as that by other authors has found scale economies at all sizes of banks and the largest scale economies at the largest banks – that is, larger banks are able to provide products at lower average cost than smaller banks. While the earlier literature found that scale...
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of whether competition, regulation and stability matter for efficiency in the banking system. Data from 440 commercial …. There was evidence to show that efficiency responds positively and significantly to shocks in capital, liquidity and asset … in efficiency, suggesting that while the variables matter for efficiency, they all also require efficiency for their …
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of the economy and greater financial stability should be achieved by sound regulation, ensuring high capital requirements … should be collected on a wider set of financial institutions than currently done and macroprudential regulation should be …
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We provide evidence that a weak banking sector has contributed to low productivity growth following the European sovereign debt crisis. An unexpected increase in capital requirements for a subset of Portuguese banks in 2011 provides a natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank...
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This paper explores the connection between "zombie" firms (firms that would typically exit in a competitive market) and bank health and the consequences for aggregate productivity in 11 European countries. Controlling for cyclical effects, the results show that zombie firms are more likely to be...
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