Profit efficiency sources and differences among small and large U.S. commercial banks

Aigbe Akhigbe () and James McNulty ()

Journal of Economics and Finance, 2005, vol. 29, issue 3, 289-299

Abstract: Profit efficiency is an econometric financial performance measure of how well actual profitability compares to a best-practice frontier. We compare the profit efficiency of small (under $100 million in total assets), medium, and large (over $1 billion) commercial banks for the period 1995 to 2001 and examine the sources of profit efficiency for each. We also consider whether banks of different sizes attain their profit efficiency in different ways. We find that small and large banks have quite different ways of attaining high profits. Copyright Springer 2005

Date: 2005
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