Resumen del libro

Reseña: Analyzing the profitability, competition and efficiency of banks, this book provides an all-embracing framework for the various existing theories in this area and illustrates them with successful practical applications. Drawing from a broad field of research and introducing a general framework for a profit-maximizing bank and demonstrating how different types of models can be fitted into this framework, it provides an overview of the major trends in European banking and relates them to each model’s assumptions, shedding light on the relevance, timeliness and shelf-life of the different models. The authors:explain the difficult choices behind the specifications of complex models presents estimation results across all OECD countries with the same dataset provides program files with estimation instruction and a sub sample of the dataset, so that test estimations can be executed. An integrated approach to the analysis of profitability and measurement of competition and efficiency, this volume is an essential resource for all students of macroeconomics and banking.

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