We formulate and estimate a multioutput bank's cost function amenable for distinguishing between economies of scale and economies of network density. We find significant returns to network density, epecially for samller banks. Diseconomies of scale are found for the larger banks, whereas the...

We developed a model for estimating the fish population for various species in lakes and rivers. Our estimation focuses, in its first step, on fish species that breed outside the lake. Using the annual outside supply of fingerlings, natural survival rate and reported amounts of fish caught, we...

The distinction between retail and corporate banking markets is of much importance in real life banking organizations. The two markets differ with respect to concentration, the importance of informational asymmetries, and the extent of customer mobility. Within a standard conjectural variation...

The main purpose of this paper is to incorporate the oligopolistic nature of the banking industry into the (conventional) production model in order to contribute to the empirical literature on the structure, conduct and performance in banking and to achieve unbiased measures of scale economies...

A model is presented for the estimation of production technology when capital is endogenously utiliz ed. The present model permits the firm to choose the rate of utilizat ion and level of maintenance applied to its capital equipment such th at the user cost of capital services is minimized. The...