THE EFFECT OF THE 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON THE EFFICIENCY OF LARGE U.S. COMMERCIAL BANKS

Seyed Mehdian (), Rasoul Rezvanian () and Ovidiu Stoica
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Seyed Mehdian: School of Management, The University of Michigan-Flint, Flint , MI 48502, USA
Rasoul Rezvanian: School of Business, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Review of Economic and Business Studies, 2019, issue 24, 11-27

Abstract: The 2008 financial crisis, originated by securitization of sub-prime mortgage loans, had a huge impact on U.S. financial institutions and markets. We hypothesize that due to this crisis, the commercial banking industry has changed their portfolio structures and risk-taking behavior. To shed light on the response of U.S. banks to the 2008 financial crisis, we use the non-parametric approach to measure and compare the overall efficiency of large U.S. banks pre- and post-2008 financial crisis. We then decompose the overall measure of efficiency into allocative, overall technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency measures to better understand the sources of banking inefficiencies. The results indicate that large U.S. banks indeed changed their portfolios structure, and the efficiency of large commercial banks in the United States declined substantially during the financial crisis. Although it has been recovering since then, it still has not reached to the pre-crisis efficiency level.

Keywords: banks; financial crisis; efficiency; productivity; U.S.A. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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