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The cost efficiency of German banks: a comparison of SFA and DEA

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dc.creator Koetter, Michael
dc.creator Karmann, Alexander
dc.creator Fiorentino, Elisabetta
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:41Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:41Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19757
dc.identifier ppn:520781538
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:bubdp2:5157
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19757
dc.description We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier methods in the financial economics literature: Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis. We sample 34,192 observations for all German universal banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004: levels, rankings, identification of extreme performers, stability over time and correlation to standard accounting-based measures of performance. We find that non-parametric methods are particularly sensitive to measurement error and outliers. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is important to avoid misinterpretation about the status of efficiency of the total banking sector. Finally, despite ongoing fundamental changes in Europe?s largest banking system, efficiency rank stability is very high in the short run. However, we also find that annually estimated efficiency scores are markedly less stable over a period of twelve years, in particular for parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important influence on obtained efficiency rankings.
dc.language eng
dc.relation Discussion Paper, Series 2: Banking and Financial Supervision 2006,10
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject L25
dc.subject G21
dc.subject D24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Cost Efficiency
dc.subject Banks
dc.subject Stochastic Frontier Approach
dc.subject Data Envelopment Analysis
dc.subject Bank
dc.subject Kostenfunktion
dc.subject Technische Effizienz
dc.subject Data-Envelopment-Analyse
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title The cost efficiency of German banks: a comparison of SFA and DEA
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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