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An examination on the cost efficiency of the banking industry under multiple output prices' uncertainty
Authors:
Tai-Hsin Huang a;
Ying-Ting Liao b;
Li-Chih Chiang c
| Affiliations: | a Department of Money and Banking, National Chengchi University, Taipei City 116, The Republic of China |
| b Graduate Institute of Economics, Tamkang University, Taiwan 251, The Republic of China | |
| c Graduate School of Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, The Republic of China |
DOI:
10.1080/00036840701721190
Publication Frequency:
24 issues per year
Published in:
Applied Economics
First Published on:
31 October 2007
Subjects:
Economics;
Macroeconomics;
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Abstract
This article formulates a behavioural model of profit maximization, which explicitly incorporates both multiple output prices' risk and safety-first practice. This theoretical model is specifically suitable for investigating financial institutions, whose output prices frequently encounter a variety of risks, such as loan defaults/arrears. The sample banks are empirically found to be highly risk-averse. Furthermore, risk preferences exert little effect on the technical efficiency estimates, whereas the same estimates obtained by the standard fixed-effect model under certainty tend to be overestimated. Evidence is found that a specialized bank offering a single product with a larger scale of production will be preferable in an uncertain atmosphere.
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