Are U.S. Commercial Banks Too Big?

This paper presents new nonparametric measures of scale economies and TFP growth for U.S. banks. Unlike previous studies that use fully nonparametric models, our approach controls for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity among banks in estimating returns to scale, TFP growth and its components. U...

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Autores:
Restrepo, Diego A.
Kumbhakar, Subal C.
Sun, Kai
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Fecha de publicación:
2013
Institución:
Universidad EAFIT
Repositorio:
Repositorio EAFIT
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/996
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10784/996
Palabra clave:
Banks
TFP growth
Returns to scale
Scale economies
Nonparametric
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