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Cost Efficiency of Domestic and Foreign Banks in Thailand: Evidence from Panel Data

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dc.creator Chantapong, Saovanee
dc.creator Menkhoff, Lukas
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:52Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:52Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19802
dc.identifier ppn:500747008
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:gdec05:3482
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19802
dc.description The paper estimates and compares cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in Thailand by using bank-panel data between 1995 and 2003. It also examines the effect of foreign bank entry on banking efficiency in Thailand since the significant acquisitions by foreign banks after the 1997 financial crisis. The widely used translog functional form specification is statistically tested by pooled regressions. The estimated results suggest that the unit costs of production of domestic and foreign banks are indistinguishable, although the two types of banks focus on different areas of the banking business. The findings suggest that based on bank operating efficiency, if foreign banks represent the best-practice banks in the industry, to a large extent, domestic banks in Thailand have caught up to the best-practice standards throughout 1995-2003, significantly after the 1997 financial crisis . This may be due to greater foreign participation through acquisitions, which increases the competitive pressure in the banking industry, and also to financial restructuring of domestic banks, which increases the cost efficiency of domestic banks, thereby benefiting banking customers.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 9
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject G32
dc.subject D24
dc.subject G21
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Banks
dc.subject Financial Policy
dc.subject Capital and Ownership Structure
dc.subject Cost Efficiency
dc.title Cost Efficiency of Domestic and Foreign Banks in Thailand: Evidence from Panel Data
dc.type doc-type:conferenceObject


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