This paper surveys 130 studies that apply frontier efficiency analysis to financial institutions
in 21 countries. The primary goals are to summarize and critically review empirical estimates …

Over the past several years, substantial research effort has gone into measuring the
efficiency of financial institutions. Many studies have found that inefficiencies are quite large …

This paper seeks to identify the characteristics that make individual US banks more likely to
fail or be acquired. We use bank-specific information to estimate competing-risks hazard …

Agency issues associated with different types of firm ownership are an area of concern in
many banking systems where state-owned banks operate alongside mutual and private …

This paper investigates input and output efficiency in the Turkish banking industry to
understand the impact of size, international variables, ownership, control and governance …

Significant difficulties in commercial banking in the late 1980s raise questions about bank
performance and efficiency. With the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA), we consider …

This paper investigates the impact of risk and quality factors on banks' cost by using the
stochastic cost frontier methodology to evaluate scale and X-inefficiencies, as well as …

Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on Recent Advances Page 1 Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on
Recent Advances Christopher F. Parmeter Department of Economics University of Miami …

This paper extends the established literature on modelling the cost characteristics of
banking markets by applying the flexible Fourier functional form and stochastic cost frontier …

This study investigates the main determinants of Italian banks' cost efficiency over the period
1993–1996, by employing a Fourier-flexible stochastic cost frontier in order to measure X …