Competition and efficiency in EU27 banking systems

Study the Relationship between Competition and cost Efficiency in Iran’s Banking Industry

An important factor affecting economic growth is the creation of an efficient financial system for financing high value-added activities. Accordingly, this study examined the relationship between cost efficiency and competition in Iran’s banking industry using data of 18 state-owned and private banks over the period of 2006-2015. To do so, we used trans-log cost function to measure the cost eff...

Competition and Efficiency in the Spanish Banking Sector:

This paper analyses the importance of productive specialisation in explaining cost efficiency differences between banking companies. Taking as reference the Spanish banking sector during the period 1985-96, the study shows that if cost efficiency measurements are corrected for the effect of different specialisation by the estimation of separate frontiers for four different groups of competitors...

Bank Competition and Risk-taking in the Iranian Banking Industry

Abstract: The banking industry is one of the main sectors of the economy of any country, that its health is a necessary condition to play a positive role in the economic development of that country. The health of the banking system is assessed by the financial stability criterion, which is evaluated by various risk-taking indexes. On the other hand, the banks risk-taking is affected by various...

Competition in Banking

Managers and efficiency in banking

This paper presents evidence on the impact of managers on cost efficiency in banking. Stochastic frontier analysis is applied to a unique Finnish data set. The paper finds that manager age and education have strong yet complicated effects. University education enhances efficiency if the manager is running a large bank. Managing director changes are systematically followed by efficiency changes....