Cost Efficiency of Banks in Transition: Evidence from 289 Banks in 15 Post-Communist Countries

By S. Fries, A. Taci. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Management Science and Operations Research

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Financial freedom and bank efficiency: Evidence from the European Union (2013, result): “These results are broadly in line with recent empirical evidence considering the implications of liberalization and reforms in the financial sector (e.g., La Porta et al., 1998; Fries and Taci, 2005).”
Efficiency of conventional versus Islamic banks: evidence from the Middle East (2009, background): “Fifth, some studies focused on the concept of new bank versus old bank efficiency ( Fries and Taci, 2005”
Efficiency in Islamic and conventional banking: an international comparison (2010, methodology): “With regard to the chosen functional form, most crosscountry studies of banking efficiency have employed a cost function approach (Dietsch and Lozano-Vivas 2000; Abd Karim 2001; Carvallo and Kasman 2005; Fries and Taci 2005; Kasman 2005; Carbo Valverde et al. 2007; Maudos and De Guevara 2007), or ”
Foreign Banks and the Vienna Initiative: Turning Sinners into Saints? (2012, background): “The authors would like to thank Bas Bakker, Eugenio Cerutti, Costas Christou, Erik Berglöf, Hans Degryse, Zuzana Fungáčová, Mark Griffiths, Anne-Marie Gulde, Simon Johnson, Christoph Klingen, Hannah Levinger, Elitza Mileva, Piroska M. Nagy, Katharina Pistor, Alberto F. Pozzolo, Magnus Saxegaard, Jer”
The effect of board size and composition on European bank performance (2007, background): “the ratio of operating expenses to total assets (OEA), is the best proxy measure for the average cost of non-financial inputs to banks (Fries and Taci (2005)).”
Determinants of bank profitability in transition countries: What matters most? (2016, background): “of CEE from a system of central planning to a market economy (Fries et al., 2002; Fries and Taci, 2005; Kenjegalieva and Simper, 2011).”
Bank efficiency and non-performing loans: Evidence from Turkey (2019, methodology): “In the current literature, non-performing loans have been categorized as either a controlled variable (e.g. Mester, 1997; Berger and DeYoung, 1997; Fries and Taci, 2005; Podpiera and Weill, 2008) or as a bad output (e.g. Park and Weber, 2006; Fukuyama and Weber, 2008; Hajialiakbari et al., 2013;…”
Governance, Efficiency and Risk Taking in Chinese Banking (2017, positive): “Several studies have shown that state-owned banks are often associated with lower efficiency (e.g. Fries & Taci, 2005; Bonin, Hasan, & Wachtel, 2005), and greater risk taking (e.g. Iannotta, Nocera, & Sironi, 2013).”
Performance and Merton-type default risk of listed banks in the EU: A panel VAR approach (2009, background): “…banks on average perform poorly compared to private domestic institutions in developed nations (e.g., DeYoung and Nolle 1996, Berger et al., 2000), though results seem to be reversed in the case of developing countries (i.e., Bonin et al., 2005; Claessens et al., 2001; Fries and Taci, 2005).”
The impact of regulatory reforms on cost structure, ownership and competition in Indian banking (2010, background): “8 Fries and Taci (2005) review the advantages of using a one-step estimation of the determinants of inefficiency over the alternative two step estimation.”
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions (2011, background): “Finally, loan loss reserves (LLR) are included to control for differences in the risk taking strategies among MFIs (Fries and Taci, 2005).”
Efficiency in the Vietnamese banking system: A DEA double bootstrap approach (2016, background): “…increased competition and mergers and acquisitions to enhance the efficiency and productivity of the banking system, and to speed up a country’s financial development and economic growth (Bonin et al., 2005; Fries and Taci, 2005; Staikouras et al., 2008; Huang et al., 2015 and Ghosh, 2015).”