Cost Efficiency of Banks in Croatia
Foreign and larger banks in Croatia are generally considered to be more cost efficient compared with domestic and smaller banks. However, those views are often based on data from financial statements that can be misleading due to simultaneous consolidation process on the market and the existence of...
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| description | Foreign and larger banks in Croatia are generally considered to be more cost efficient compared with domestic and smaller banks. However, those views are often based on data from financial statements that can be misleading due to simultaneous consolidation process on the market and the existence of economies of scale. To contribute to the Croatian banking efficiency literature, we construct a panel of individual bank data for 1994-2014 period and conduct a frontier analysis to calculate bank specific X-efficiency. Our results suggest that efficiency scores depend on the cost definition as domestic and smaller banks are more efficient in managing administrative costs compared with foreign and larger banks but equally efficient in managing total costs. Results indicate that average bank relative efficiency increased on two occasions: one in the late 90s in the period of banking crisis and subsequent “market cleansing” and to a lesser extent in the period marked with financial crisis. Although the differences between bank cost efficiencies seem small, we conclude that the area is worth further research as significant gains in bank earnings could be achieved by increasing efficiency. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29bc216fc0764772a671cd6a6f32c8382024-04-03T10:34:42ZengCroatian Statistical AssociationCroatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics2459-56162015-12-0111-2122610.1515/crebss-2016-0002Cost Efficiency of Banks in CroatiaHuljak Ivan0Croatian National Bank, Zagreb, CroatiaForeign and larger banks in Croatia are generally considered to be more cost efficient compared with domestic and smaller banks. However, those views are often based on data from financial statements that can be misleading due to simultaneous consolidation process on the market and the existence of economies of scale. To contribute to the Croatian banking efficiency literature, we construct a panel of individual bank data for 1994-2014 period and conduct a frontier analysis to calculate bank specific X-efficiency. Our results suggest that efficiency scores depend on the cost definition as domestic and smaller banks are more efficient in managing administrative costs compared with foreign and larger banks but equally efficient in managing total costs. Results indicate that average bank relative efficiency increased on two occasions: one in the late 90s in the period of banking crisis and subsequent “market cleansing” and to a lesser extent in the period marked with financial crisis. Although the differences between bank cost efficiencies seem small, we conclude that the area is worth further research as significant gains in bank earnings could be achieved by increasing efficiency.https://doi.org/10.1515/crebss-2016-0002croatiabankscost efficiencyd22g21g34 |
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| title | Cost Efficiency of Banks in Croatia |
| title_full | Cost Efficiency of Banks in Croatia |
| title_fullStr | Cost Efficiency of Banks in Croatia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cost Efficiency of Banks in Croatia |
| title_short | Cost Efficiency of Banks in Croatia |
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| topic | croatia banks cost efficiency d22 g21 g34 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/crebss-2016-0002 |
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