This article aims at investigating the efficiency of European and US commercial banks. Scale and scope economies indicators, as well as a measurement of X-efficiency are derived from three cost functions: Fourier flexible form, translog and Box-Cox. This allows checking the stability and the robustness of the evidence across the different specifications. Our results over the period 1995-98 show that, overall, the largest banks do not seem to have higher efficiency scores. Therefore, further enlargement of the production size does not necessarily lead to production gains.



Titolo: Does bank consolidation lead to efficiency gains? Evidence from large commercial banks in Europe and US
Autori: 
ROSSI, STEFANIA PATRIZIA SONIA
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Data di pubblicazione: 2006
Rivista: 
THE ICFAI JOURNAL OF BANK MANAGEMENT  
Abstract: This article aims at investigating the efficiency of European and US commercial banks. Scale and scope economies indicators, as well as a measurement of X-efficiency are derived from three cost functions: Fourier flexible form, translog and Box-Cox. This allows checking the stability and the robustness of the evidence across the different specifications. Our results over the period 1995-98 show that, overall, the largest banks do not seem to have higher efficiency scores. Therefore, further enlargement of the production size does not necessarily lead to production gains.
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2900407
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