We analyze the profit efficiency of the Colombian banking industry during the period 2001 - 2013. Unlike previous … studies, we estimate revenue and cost efficiency separately and then compute profit efficiency as a composite measure of both … cost and revenue efficiency. This approach overcomes the mis-specification problems of the traditional nonstandard profit …

efficiency of individual banks, are also of great importance to profitability (proxied by ROA and ROE ratios) of banking sectors …. Our results suggest that banking sector specific determinants affect the efficiency of banks in anticipated way …. Macroeconomic variables have statistically significant impact on both ROA and ROE. The sensitivity of efficiency to both groups of …

. We estimate several measures of bank efficiency (focusing on costs, revenues, net profits, operating income … can be concrete in time of crises. We analyze the contribution of efficiency to cooperative bank probability of default … role. By using a discrete-time survival model, we show that efficiency has a positive and statistically significant link …

financial intermediation and the supremacy of banks' efficiency. This study examines the concurrent effects of bank risk …, efficiency and cost of financial intermediation of Bangladeshi commercial banks. The Two-Step System GMM (2GMM) estimators of …-level, industry-level, and macroeconomic-level phenomenon. Efficiency gains cost the spread of banks' financial intermediation, and …

policies on bank profit efficiency estimated with a production frontier function. Our results show that more regulatory … requirements decrease bank profit efficiency. We confirm this finding under various assumptions for the bank inputs and outputs … used in their production process. We also find that the impact of financial consumer protection policies on bank profit …