Zusammenfassung Obwohl zahlreiche DEA-basierte Bewertungsmodelle entwickelt wurden, die den Einfluss bankinterner Strukturen auf die Gesamtbankleistung abbilden sollen, bleiben die Möglichkeit der Leistungssteigerung durch eine zentrale Ressourcenumverteilung zumeist unberücksichtigt. Lozano...

Banking efficiency has been one of the most often studied subjects since the introduction of Data Envelopment Analysis. However, there is no broadly accepted model specification yet. Recently a new model, particularly addressing the ambiguous role of deposits in banking, has been presented by...

Multidivisional and decentralized firms often operate inefficiently. In most cases, central management’s instruments to influence its branches’ behavior are limited. Although relative performance evaluation has been argued to be of great use in defining incentive mechanisms, such approaches...

The characteristics book-to-market equity ratio, size and momentum are highly correlated with the average returns of common stocks. Fama and French (J Financ Econ 33(1):3-56, 1993), (J Finance 50(1):131-155, 1995) and (J Finance 51(1):55-84, 1996) argue (for size and the book-to-market equity...

In diesem Beitrag werden ausgehend von theoretischen Überlegungen die Wirkungen von Fusionen und Betriebsgröße auf die Bilanzkennzahlen von Genossenschaftsbanken untersucht. Die empirische Studie basierte auf einer Stichprobe von insgesamt 731 Jahresabschlüssen von Genossenschaftsbanken und...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the implications of the risk versus characteristic debate from the perspective of a mean-variance investor. Design/methodology/approach: Expected returns and the variance-covariance matrix are estimated based on various characteristic and risk...