volatility allows a measurement to be made of the impact of volume changes on banks’ profits. This method is applied to a …

This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks’ financial strength ratings (bank rating) and … they assume and thereby have a low probability of experiencing financial distress. Bank ratings, a measure of a bank …’s intrinsic safety and soundness, should therefore be able to capture the bank’s ability to manage financial distress while …

the first direct evidence of bank capitalization being the driving force behind “zombie” firms. I quantify the direct …

natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by …We provide evidence that a weak banking sector has contributed to low productivity growth following the European … the resulting increase in factor misallocation accounts for 20% of the decline in productivity in Portugal in 2012. …

activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they … subsequently merged with other banks. German banks were still able to increase their productivity through consolidation. -- Banking …

This paper introduces a new parametric measure of productivity change using the hyperbolic distance function. More …, it shows measurements of three components of productivity change. The first component, technical efficiency change, is … investigate productivity change of the Vietnamese banking sector during the 2000–2006 period. The empirical results show that the …

of individual banks. In particular, we analyse the value relevance of bank cost efficiency and total factor productivity …This paper examines shareholder value drivers in European banking focusing on the efficiency and productivity features …

This paper examines the changes in productivity and its components for Saudi Commercial Banks between 1996 and 2009. We … Productivity (TFP). Results show that Saudi Arabian Banking industry experienced sustained productivity growth driven mainly by …

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 …