The structure of technology in a multioutput branch banking firm

Moshe Kim; Uri Ben Zion

doi:10.1080/07350015.1989.10509762

The structure of technology in a multioutput branch banking firm

Moshe Kim, Uri Ben Zion

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We formulate and estimate a multioutput bank’s cost function amenable for distinguishing between economies of scale and economies of network density. We find significant returns to network density, especially for smaller banks. Diseconomies of scale are found for the larger banks, whereas the hypothesis of constant returns to scale could not be rejected for the smaller banks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	489-496
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.1989.10509762
State	Published - Oct 1989

Keywords

Density
Scale
Scope

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistics and Probability
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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