Cost Efficiency of European Cooperative Banks: Are Small Institutions Predestined to Fail?

Matěj Kuc ()
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Matěj Kuc: Institute of Economic Studies

Chapter Chapter 10 in New Trends in Finance and Accounting, 2017, pp 105-113 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Aim of this paper is to make a literature review and also to empirically assess optimal size of cooperative banks in European Union in terms of their cost efficiency. Theoretical explanations for possible efficiency advantages are brought forward and consequently they are compared with existing empirical literature. Furthermore, we created dataset of 283 banks from 15 European countries between years 2006 and 2013 to empirically investigate this problem on recent data. Using descriptive statistics, we found that bigger European cooperative banks are more efficient in terms of cost-to-income ratio than the smaller ones. These results seem to be stable in time and also in individual countries as was shown on analysis of subsamples.

Keywords: Cooperative banking; Cost efficiency; Economies of scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49559-0_10

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