COMPETENCIA EN LA INDUSTRIA BANCARIA DE COSTA RICA. UN ENFOQUE DESDE LAS ECONOMÍAS DE ESCALA PARA EL PERIODO 1997-2009

Alejandro Gutiérrez Li

Revista de Ciencias Económicas, 2013, vol. 31, issue 1

Abstract: I estimate a translogarithmic cost function for the Costa Rican banking industry from which I analyze the presence of economies of scale by bank and market segment (public or private) for the period of 1997-2009. I conclude that the public banks have higher overall economies of scale than the private ones and lower marginal costs in lending. The private segment has higher economies of scale in both services and securities. BAC San Jose and Banco Nacional have the highest economies of scale in the sample.

Keywords: economías de escala; datos de panel; función translogarítmica; economies of scale; panel data; translogarithmic function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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