Inefficiency and productivity growth in banking: a comparison of stochastic econometric and thick frontier methods

A comparison of alternative methods for estimating inefficiency and productivity growth in banking, showing that inefficiencies are sufficiently large to dominate scale economies and that measured technological progress has been small, or even negative, as a result of institutional events that occurred during 1977-88.

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Year of publication:	1991
Authors:	Bauer, Paul W. ; Berger, Allen N. ; Humphrey, David B.
Institutions:	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Subject:	Banks and banking - Costs \| Production (Economic theory)

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 9117
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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