Scale effects on efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector
Abstract This paper analyzes efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector over the period 1997–2019. We find strong evidence for scale economies: for most banks in the sample, efficiency and profitability increase with bank size. Using an instrumental variables strategy for a subset of g...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41937-022-00091-7 |