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The present study employs the state of the art bias-corrected Malmquist Productivity Index method to examine the sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The preferred methodology enables us to isolate efforts to catch up...
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Surveys of bank efficiency intrinsically draw conclusions based on the assumption that all banks in a sample use the … model by using data of the Greek banking sector for the period 1993-2008.Our results reveal that the Greek bank …
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Does relationship bank oversight improve firm operational efficiency and reduce default risk? I find that a new loan … from a relationship bank improves the technical efficiency of inefficient firms that have an elevated probability of … in the years following new relationship bank loans, benefiting both banks and borrowers. Thus, the benefits of …
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This paper investigates the relevance of banking sector specific and macroeconomic determinants of profitability of 21 banking sectors in years 1995-2009. In the analysis we apply Arellano and Bond GMM estimator to aggregated data collected in harmonized way by OECD, to find out whether banking...
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This study proposes a "Flexible Cost Model" (FCM) for settings in which firms may be unable or unwilling to optimally manage their cost structures. FCM, which nests a wide range of more restrictive models, allows for a flexible specification not only of the technology but also of firm-level...
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