A nonparametric approach for assessing productivity dynamics of large U.S. banks

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 121-139

  Alam, Ila M Semenick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035587058     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2673875     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Adams, Robert, Ila M.S. Alam, and Robin C. Sickles. "Time Variation in Banking Efficiency: Do Banks Converge to the Frontier." Working paper, Rice University, 1998.
2. Adams, Robert, Allen N. Berger, and Robin C. Sickles. "Semiparametric Approaches to Stochastic Panel Frontiers with Applications in the Banking Industry." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 17 (July 1999), 349-58.
3. Alam, Ila M.S. "Technical and Scale Efficiency in the U.S. Banking Industry." Working paper, Tulane University, 2000.
4. _ . "Productivity Dynamics and Scale Efficiency in the U.S. Banking Industry: A Nonparametric Approach." Working paper, Tulane University, 2001.
5. Alam, Ila M.S., and Robin C. Sickles. "Time Series Analysis of Deregulatory Dynamics and Technical Efficiency: The Case of the U.S. Airline Industry." International Economic Review 41 (February 2000), 203-18.
6. Aly, Hassan Y., Richard Grabowski, Carl Pasurka, and Nanda Rangan. "Technical, Scale and Allocative Efficiencies in U.S. Banking: An Empirical Investigation." Review of Economics and Statistics 72 (May 1990), 211-18.
7. Athanassopoulos, Antreas D. "Nonparametric Frontier Models for Assessing the Market and Cost Efficiency of Large-scale Bank Branch Networks." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 30 (May 1998), 172-92.
8. Atkinson, Scott E., and Paul W. Wilson. "Comparing Mean Efficiency and Productivity Scores from Small Samples: A Bootstrap Methodology." Journal of Productivity Analysis 6 (1995), 137-52.
9. Bauer, Paul W., Allen N. Berger, Gary D. Ferrier, and David B. Humphrey. "Consistency Conditions for Regulatory Analysis of Financial Institutions: A Comparison of Frontier Efficiency Methods." Journal of Economics and Business 50 (March 1998), 85-114.
10. Bauer, Paul W., Allen N. Berger, and David B. Humphrey. "Efficiency and Productivity Growth in U.S. Banking." In The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications, edited by Harold O. Fried, C.A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S. Schmidt, 386-413. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
11. Berg, Sigbjørn A., Finn R. Førsund, and Eilev S. Jansen. "Malmquist Indices of Productivity Growth during the Deregulation of Norwegian Banking, 1980-89." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 94 (1992, Supplement), 211-28.
12. Berg, Sigbjørn A., Finn R. Førsund, Lennart Hjalmarsson, and Matti Suominen. "Banking Efficiency in Nordic Countries." Journal of Banking and Finance 17 (1993), 371-88.
13. Berger, Allen N. " 'Distribution-Free' Estimates of Efficiency in the U.S. Banking Industry and Tests of the Standard Distributional Assumptions." Journal of Productivity Analysis 4 (September 1993), 261-92.
14. Berger, Allen N., and David B. Humphrey. "The Dominance of Inefficiencies over Scale and Product Mix Economies in Banking." Journal of Monetary Economics 28 (August 1991), 117-48.
15. _ . "Measurement and Efficiency Issues in Commercial Banking." In Measurement Issues in the Service Sectors, edited by Zvi Griliches, pp. 245-279. Chicago: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago Press, 1992.
16. _ . "Efficiency of Financial Institutions: International Survey and Directions for Future Research." European Journal of Operational Reseach 98 (1997), 175-212.
17. Berger, Allen N., William C. Hunter, and Stephen G. Timme. "The Efficiency of Financial Institutions: A Review and Preview of Research Past, Present, and Future." Journal of Banking and Finance 17 (April 1993), 221-49.
18. Berger, Allen N., Anil K. Kashyap, and Joseph M. Scalise. "The Transformation of the U.S. Banking Industry: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (1995), 55-218.
19. Berger, Allen N., and Loretta J. Mester. "Inside the Black Box: What Explains Differences in the Efficiencies of Financial Institutions?" Journal of Banking and Finance 21 (1997), 895-947.
20. _ . "What Explains the Dramatic Changes in Cost and Profit Performance of the U.S. Banking Industry?" Working paper no. 99-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, February 1999.
21. Bjurek, Hans. "The Malmquist Total Factor Productivity Index" Scandinavian Journal of Economics 98 (June 1996), 303-13.
22. Caves, Richard E., and David R. Barton. Efficiency in U.S. Manufacturing Industries. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
23. Charnes, Abraham, and William W. Cooper. "Management Science Relations for Evaluation and Management Accountability." Journal of Enterprises Management 2 (1980), 143-62.
24. Charnes, Abraham, William W. Cooper, and E. Rhodes. "Measuring Efficiency of Decision-Making Units." European Journal of Operational Research 2 (1978), 429-44.
25. Colwell, R. J. and E. P. Davis. "Output and Productivity in Banking." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 94 (Supplement 1992), S111-29.
26. Elyasiani, Elyas, and Seyed M. Mehdian. "Efficiency, in the Commercial Banking Sector. A Production Function Approach." Applied Economics 22 (1990), 539-51.
27. _ . "Productive Efficiency of Minority and Nonminority-Owned Banks: A Nonparametric Approach." Journal of Banking and Finance 16 (1992), 933-48.
28. _ . "The Comparative Efficiency Performance of Small and Large U.S. Commercial Banks in the Pre- and Postderegulation Eras." Applied Economics 27 (1995), 1069-79.
29. English, Mary, Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy J. Hayes, and Suthathip Yaiswarng. " Output allocative and Technical Efficiency of Banks." Journal of Banking and Finance 17 (1993), 349-66.
30. Färe, Rolf, Shawna Grosskopf, and Mary Norris. " Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries: Reply." American Economic Review 87 (December 1997), 1040-43.
31. Färe, Rolf, Shawna Grooskopf, Mary Norris, and Zhongyang Zhang. "Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industialized Countries." American Economic Review 84 (March 1994), 66-83.
32. Ferrie, Gary D., and C.A. Knox Lovell. " Measuring Cost Efficiency in Banking: Econometric and Linear Programming Evidence." Journal of Econometrics 46 (1990), 229-45.
33. Grifell-Tatjé, Emili, and C.A. Knox Lovell. "A Note on the Malmquist Productivity Index." Economics Letters 47 (1995), 169-75.
34. _ . "A Generalized Malmquist Productivity Index." Working paper, University of Georgia, 1998.
35. Hughes, Joseph P., William Lang, Loretta J. Mester, and Choon-Geol Moon. "Efficient Banking under Interstate Branching." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 28 (November 1996 Part 2), 1045-71.
36. Hughes, Joseph P., and Loretta J. Mester. "Bank Capitalization and Cost: Evidence of Scale Economies in Risk Management and Signaling." Review of Economics and Statistics 80 (May 1998), 314-25.
37. Humphrey, David B. "Productivity in Banking and Effects from Deregulation." Economic Review 77 (1991), 16-28.
38. _ . "Cost and Technical Change: Effects from Bank Deregulation." Journal of Productivity Analysis 4 (1993), 5-34.
39. Humphrey, David B., and Lawrence B. Pulley. "Banks' Responses to Deregulation: Profits, Technology and Efficiency." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 29 (February 1997), 73-93.
40. Hunter, William C., and Stephen G. Timme. "Technological Change and Production Economies in Large U.S. Commercial Banking." Journal of Business 64 (July 1991), 339-62.
41. Lang, Günter, and Peter Welzel. "Efficiency and Technical Progress in Banking: Empirical Results for a Panel of German Banks." Journal of Banking and Finance 20 (1996), 1003-23.
42. McAllister, Patrick H., and Douglas McManus. "Resolving the Scale Efficiency Puzzle in Banking." Journal of Banking and Finance 17 (1993), 389-405.
43. Peristiani, Stavros. "Do Mergers Improve the X-Efficiency and Scale Efficiency of U.S. Banks? Evidence from the 1980s." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 29 (August 1997), 326-37.
44. Ray, Subhash C., and Evangelia Desli. "Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries: Comment." American Economic Review 87 (December 1997), 1033-39.
45. Seiford, Lawrence M., and Robert M. Thrall. "Recent Developments in DEA: The Mathematical Programming Approach to Frontier Analysis." Journal of Econometrics 46 (October-November 1990), 7-38.
46. Sherman, H. David, and Franklin Gold. "Branch Operating Efficiency: Evaluation with Data Envelopment Analysis." Journal of Banking and Finance 9 (1985), 297-315.
47. Wheelock, David C., and Paul W. Wilson. "Technical Progress, Inefficiency, and Productivity Change in U.S. Banking, 1984-1993." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 31 (May 1999), 212-34.