A Nonparametric Approach for Assessing Productivity Dynamics of Large U.S. Banks

By Ila M. Semenick Alam. 2001

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Are foreign banks always the best? Comparison of state-owned, private and foreign banks in India (2006, background): “India provides a unique case study whereby banking industry is charac- 2See Alam (2001) and Berger and Mester (2003) for discussions of recent literature. terized by a mixed ownership structure and the deregulation of the industry in the nineties had paved the way for a level playing eld between…”
A Comparison of Performance of Islamic and Conventional Banks 2004 to 2009 (2014, methodology): “Indeed, equity has been used to reflect risk in previous studies which have covered times of financial crisis: the East Asian crisis (Abdul-Majid et al. 2008), and the savings and loans crisis in the USA (Alam 2001).”
Bank efficiency and non-performing loans: Evidence from Turkey (2019, methodology): “20 Reference Alam, I.M.S. 2001, "A nonparametric approach for assessing productivit y dynamics of large US banks", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking,, pp. 12139. An, Q., Chen, H., Wu, J. and Liang, L., 2015. Measuring slacks -based efficiency for commercial banks in China by using a twostage DEA ”
Productivity change in European banking: A comparison of parametric and non-parametric approaches (2004, background): “Alam (2001) adopts a similar approach to Wheelock and Wilson (1999) to investigate productivity change in US commercial banking over the 1980s and finds a significant productivity increase between 1983 and 1984, followed by a fall in 1985 and growth thereafter.”
The Economic Effects of Technological Progress: Evidence from the Banking Industry (2003, methodology): “…movements of the best-practice frontier and changes in inefficiency using either cost productivity (e.g., Berger and Humphrey 1992a, Bauer, Berger, and Humphrey 1993, Berger and Mester forthcoming) or linear programming methods (e.g., Wheelock and Wilson 1999, Devaney and Weber 2000, Alam 2001).”
Explaining efficiency differences among large German and Austrian banks (2004, background): “Alam (2001) finds that deregulation takes several years to translate into productivity improvements.”
The sources of bank productivity growth in China during 2002-2009: A disaggregation view (2012, background): “Other evidence indicates that productivity growth is mainly driven by technical change for the American (Alam, 2001; Mukherjee et al., 2001), European, and Japanese banks (e.g., Casu et al., 2004; Koutsomanoli-Filippaki et al., 2009; Barros et al., 2010; Assaf et al., 2011) by applying the Malmquist”
Religiosity and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry (2014, unknown): “For all tests, we report Wald or t statistics based on clustered standard errors after correcting for both serial and cross-sectional 10 We follow Alam (2001) to set 500 millions of total assets as big banks criterion.”