Banks with different ownership types adjust differently to changes in regulatory
environments. Although this topic has been widely studied, all the previous studies fail to …

The biggest irony of the 2008 financial crisis is that the market crash was both initially
triggered and ultimately alleviated by massive bank mergers. A wave of mergers by Bank of …

Propelled by the recent financial product innovations involving derivatives, securitization
and mortgages, commercial banks are becoming more complex, branching out into many …

This paper presents a four-component stochastic frontier model in which the frontier function
is represented by an unknown smooth input distance function, and inefficiency is …

In a Saturday Night Live sketch that aired during the 2016 Democratic Presidential
primaries, a town hall questioner played by Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus asks" …

There is a close logical correlation between structural reform of the financial sector and the
enhancement of financial institutions' economic performance. In the existing research …

Weltweit wurde als Folge der globalen Finanzkrise die Regulierung des Finanzsektors
verschärft. Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Konsequenzen diese …

This dissertation includes three essays conducting analyses of firm performance with the
emphasis on estimating production technology, productivity, cost effectiveness and their …

This contribution proposes a novel Bayesian approach to nonparametric frontier model
selection based on the probabilistic framework of Laplace-type estimators. Our empirical …

The speed at which money moves through the complex institutional circuitry known as the
payment system matters greatly.'Among people who live paycheck to paycheck, even a …