or cost savings. We suggest a united approach to measure competition and efficiency simultaneously to test this … hypothesis. We estimate bank-specific Lerner indices as measures of competition and test if cost and profit efficiency are … are small from an economical perspective. -- Savings banks ; competition ; efficiency ; quiet life hypothesis …

episodes of financial distress and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost-of-funds subsidy of … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of scale …

substantial measurement error. In this paper, we examine the magnitude and direction of this error in cost and profit efficiency …Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank’s own implicit input price … when estimating efficient frontiers. But the theoretical foundation of most studies is a cost minimisation and/ or profit …