Productivity and efficiency at large and community banks in the US: A Bayesian true random effects stochastic distance frontier analysis

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1883-1895

  Feng, Guohua ^a   Zhang, Xiaohui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Productivity; True random effects stochastic distance frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862797126     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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