Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design

Zuzana Irsova

No 2010/13, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the stochastic frontier approach. Using data from five countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we study the sensitivity of the efficiency score and the efficiency ranking to a change in the design of the frontier. We found that the average scores are significantly smaller when the transcendental logarithmic functional form is used in the profit efficiency measurement and when the scaling effect is neglected in the cost efficiency measurement. The implied bank ranking is robust to changes in the stochastic frontier definition for cost efficiency, but not for profit efficiency.

Keywords: Banking; Efficiency; Stochastic Frontier Approach; Transitional countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 G21 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2010-07, Revised 2010-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-eec, nep-eff and nep-tra
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/default/file/download/id/13756 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/default/file/download/id/13756 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/default/file/download/id/13756)

Related works:
Journal Article: Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design (2011)
Working Paper: Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fau:wpaper:wp2010_13

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Natalie Svarcova ().