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Keywords:Banks and banking - Costs 

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Technological change in large U.S. commercial banks

FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 88-6

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A quality and risk-adjusted cost function for banks: evidence on the \" too-big-to-fail\" doctrine

Working Papers , Paper 91-21

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The effects of geographic expansion on bank efficiency

We assess the effects of geographic expansion on bank efficiency using cost and profit efficiency for over 7,000 U.S. banks, 1993-1998. We find that parent organizations exercise some control over the efficiency of their affiliates, although this control tends to dissipate with distance to the affiliate. However, on average, distance-related efficiency effects tend to be modest, suggesting that some efficient organizations can overcome any effects of distance. The results imply there may be no particular optimal geographic scope for banking organizations - some may operate efficiently within ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-00-14

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Depositor preference legislation and failed banks' resolution costs

Proceedings , Paper 591

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Core deposits and physical capital: a reexamination of bank scale economies and efficiency with quasi-fixed inputs

FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 93-3

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Problem loans and cost efficiency in commercial banks

This paper addresses a little-examined intersection between the problem-loan literature and the bank-efficiency literature. We employ Granger causality techniques to test four hypotheses regarding the relationships among loan quality, cost efficiency, and bank capital. The data suggest that problem loans precede reductions in measured cost efficiency; that measured cost efficiency precedes reductions in problem loans; and that reductions in capital at thinly capitalized banks precede increases in problem loans. Hence, cost efficiency may be an important indicator of future problem loans and ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1997-8

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Deregulation, cost economies and allocative efficiency of large commercial banks

Working Paper Series, Issues in Financial Regulation , Paper 90-19

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Bank scale economies, mergers, concentration, and efficiency: the U.S. experience

Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 94-23

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Who's minding the store? motivating and monitoring hired managers at small, closely held firms: the case of commercial banks

We test whether the gains from hiring an outside manager exceed the principal-agent costs of owner-manager separation at 266 small, closely held U.S. commercial banks. Our results suggest that hiring an outside manager can improve a bank's profit efficiency, but that these gains depend on aligning the hired managers with owners via managerial shareholdings. We find that over-utilizing this control mechanism results in entrenchment, while under-utilization is costly in terms of foregone profits. This study provides a relatively unfettered test of mitigating principal-agent costs, because these ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-99-17

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New evidence on returns to scale and product mix among U.S. commercial banks

Numerous studies have found that banks exhaust scale economies at low levels of output, but most are based on the estimation of parametric cost functions which misrepresent bank cost. Here we avoid specification error by using nonparametric kernal regression techniques. We modify measures of scale and product mix economies introduced by Berger et al. (1987) to accommodate the nonparametric estimation approach, and estimate robust confidence intervals to assess the statistical significance of returns to scale. We find that banks experience increasing returns to scale up to approximately $500 ...
Working Papers , Paper 1997-003

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Mester, Loretta J. 19 items

Berger, Allen N. 13 items

Humphrey, David B. 9 items

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Hunter, William C. 7 items

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