Efficiency of Labour Use in the Swedish Banking Industry: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

George E. Battese (gbattese@metz.une.edu.au), Almas Heshmati (almas.heshmati@gmail.com) and Lennart Hjalmarsson
Additional contact information
George E. Battese: Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Postal: Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia

No 289, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the deregulation of the Swedish banking industry in the mid-1980s, and the consequent banking crisis, on productive efficiency and productivity growth in the industry. An unbalanced panel of Swedish banks is studied over the period, 1984 to 1995. A total of 1275 observations are analysed for 156 banks that were observed for between two and twelve years. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate the labour-use requirements in terms of the variables, loans, deposits, guarantees, number of branches and total inventories, together with the year of observation. The inefficiency effects in the labour-use frontier are modelled in terms of the number of branches, total inventories, the type of bank and year of observation.

Keywords: Labour demand; labour-use; technical efficiency; banking industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D24 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 1998-12-01, Revised 1999-04-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ltv
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Published in Empirical Economics, 2000, pages 623-640.

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Efficiency of labour use in the Swedish banking industry: a stochastic frontier approach (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:hastef:0289

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Helena Lundin (helena.lundin@hhs.se).