Non-technical summaryThe recent crisis has revealed the existence of strong resiliency factors in the retail banking business model. Even if retail banking is characterized by a relatively rigid cost structure, most deposit-taking banks focused on retail banking businesses have come through the recent crisis quite well. In fact, the crisis has shown that the specification of business risk sources varies across banks' activities and business models. This paper proposes a new methodology for modelling and measuring banks' exposure to business risk, that is, to situations in which adverse changes resulting from uncertainty surrounding output volumes, margins and costs cause banks' profits to decline.This methodology is based on the efficiency frontier literature. The distance to the efficient frontier provides a profit-inefficiency score at the bank level. Every increase in a bank's distance to its efficiency frontier may be considered to be the consequence of a decline in that bank's profitability. Using this approach, we take the performance of the banks located in the last percentiles of inefficiency scores as illustrating the worst situation a bank will potentially encounter if unfavourable business risk factors materialise. We assume that volatility in banks' profits stems from output uncertainty, and we implement shocks to outputs in the distance function framework representing unexpected changes in output volumes. These shocks produce a decline in profits which corresponds to an increase in the value of the distance. For a given bank, and a given output volume shock, the increase in distance represents the loss in profits attributable to the decline in output volume. Taking extreme values (the 90th and 95th percentiles) of this distribution serves to measure business risk exposure. Indeed, taking extreme values means that we consider the most severe consequences of the shock in terms of declines in profits.This methodology is applied to a large panel of more than 90 French banks -mostly regional banks -running a retail banking model. Data cover the 1993-2011 period. The results verify the resiliency of the retail banking business model. Indeed, business risk, measured in terms of profits at risk, is quite low in the case of severe shocks to main outputs (lending, provision of liquidity services, activities on financial markets and sale of insurance and financial products). Results also show that, regardless of whether costs can be adjusted or not following an output shock, shocks to lending services provoke the highest decrease in profits, which means that retail banks' profits are the most sensitive to the supply of this kind of services. In other words, lending activity is likely to be the most strategic, if not the most profitable, activity for retail banks, protecting banks against business risk.
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AbstractThe recent banking crisis has revealed the existence of strong resiliency factors in the retail banking business model. On average, retail banks suffered less than other ...
Production frontiers with technical inefficiency determinants are estimated using stochastic models for textile manufacturing in eight developing countries encompassing about 800 firms. Inefficiency determinants are considered either on an individual basis, or in the form of composite indicators reflecting inhouse or managerial factors and various dimensions of the external environment. Although each of these two categories of factors is statistically significant, the former proves more influential in the explanation of the difference in efficiency between firms. Simulations are then proposed to assess the efficiency levels that would occur if firms had the opportunity to produce in the most favourable productive environments.
Ce papier présente un survol de la littérature sur les développements récents de l'estimation des frontières paramétriques ainsi que des inefficiences. Ces modèles sont présentés dans le cadre de frontières de production. Ils peuvent être adaptés pour estimer des frontières de coût ou de profit. Différentes méthodes d'estimation de ces frontières sont proposées sur données en coupe ou de panel. On précise également les avantages et les limites de chaque méthode d'évaluation.
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