 Financial disintermediation and the measurement of efficiency in banking: the case of Portuguese banksFilipa Lima and Paulo Soares de Pinho International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 2008, vol. 1, issue 2, 133-148 Abstract: In this paper we assess the impact of financial disintermediation on bank efficiency, with a focus on securitisation and bank-managed funds. For that purpose we use Banco de Portugal's proprietary database, which combines both accounting and statistical data for each single bank operating in Portugal. For both costs and profits, we simultaneously estimate frontiers and inefficiency determinants equations. We conclude that the usual practice found in the literature of not including off-balance sheet outputs in the frontier specification leads to a significant overestimation of bank inefficiency scores. While for cost efficiency, on- and off-balance sheet assets (and similarly for liabilities) do not seem to have a differentiated impact on efficiency, for profits we find that on- and off-balance sheet outputs have different efficiency impacts. Thus, we conclude that these assets and liabilities play an important role in the frontier specification. For the particular case of this data set, a discussion on efficiency determinants is also presented. Keywords: bank efficiency; financial disintermediation; off-balance sheet; securitisation; Portuguese banking; Portugal; bank-managed funds; fund management. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:injbaf:v:1:y:2008:i:2:p:133-148 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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