Efficiency of labour use in the Swedish banking industry: a stochastic frontier approach

Branch expansion and banking efficiency in Sri Lanka’s post‐conflict era

“…Deviating from common ways of comparing the performance of bank groups, this paper has We may also argue that our analysis provides evidence that an expansion of the banking sector was well positioned with economic expansion in the post-conflict era, with the findings not supporting the view of a decline in efficiency subsequent to branch expansion as asserted in previous literature Battese et al 2000;Berger & De Young 2001;Vu & Turnell 2010).…”

“…Such an expansion in the banking sector, along with methodological developments in efficiency analysis, has provided the basis for several studies investigating the relationship between branch expansions and banking efficiency. A majority of studies have identified branch expansion as a negative factor for bank efficiency as it can lead to cost increases particularly with respect to employees and fixed assets Battese et al 2000;Berger & De Young 2006;Vu & Turnell 2010). While accepting this negative impact, some studies have still proposed branch expansion along with an improvement in geographical dispersion as a strategy to improve output generation and reduce bank risk through economic diversification (Hughes et al 1996;1999;Shiers 2002).…”

“…Increased banking costs, particularly with respect to employees and fixed assets, have been identified by some studies as contributing to a decline in banking efficiency subsequent to branch expansion Battese et al 2000;Berger & De Young 2006;Vu & Turnell 2010). In addition, informational asymmetries, lack of knowledge of new market conditions, and insufficient assessment of socio-economic conditions have been identified as additional factors dampening banking efficiency with branch expansion (Bhattacharyya et al 1997;Buch 2003;Das & Ghosh 2006;Bhattacharyya & Pal 2013).…”

Determining management behaviour in European banking

“…Primary sources and an investigation of banks' internet sites also helped classify the sample according to geographic market segments. c Battese et al (2000) show that the mean function l it is estimated to have a maximum value with respect to the year of observation when the year is equal to [d 10 =ðd 11 Â 2Þ]. 7.…”

Integration, productivity and technological spillovers: Evidence for eurozone banking industries

“…A number of European studies have also addressed this issue, producing mixed empirical evidence (Altunbas et al, 1999;Battese et al, 2000). Casu et al (2004) estimate productivity change in European banking during the 1990s to find that some countries benefited from productivity growth while others did not.…”