Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …

Almost Ideal Demand System. In addition, we suggest a more general way of measuring efficiency that can incorporate a concern …

This study examines the impact of bond markets on both bank profit and cost efficiency. By employing the stochastic … frontier approach and utilizing a large micro dataset for 926 banks covering 27 economies from the Asia and Pacific region over … efficiency. The development of bond markets generally has a positive (negative) effect on bank profit (cost) efficiency. Given …

German savings banks play a key role in financing German SMEs. Accordingly, the analysis of their efficiency is of … as the Eurozone crisis (since the end of 2009) on the efficiency of German savings banks. Although the Malmquist index is … on average below one in our sample from 2003 to 2014, we conclude from our efficiency results that German savings banks …

needed how banks are governed and how bank governance is associated with performance and risk taking. This report deals with …, risk and efficiency. Compensation analyses show strong variation in compensation schemes between banks and bank divisions … two important yet less extensively examined aspects of corporate governance in banks: executive team expertise and non …

efficiency of banks … commercial banks operating in 53 African countries during the period 2005-2015. Using pooled and modified true fixed effects (TFE …) stochastic frontier panel approaches, we obtain two principal results. First, foreign-owned banks are more profit and cost …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …