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ECONOMIC RECORD
Volume 87, Issue 279, Pages 525-536Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2011.00760.x
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C33; G01; G21
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This article analyses the cost and profit efficiencies of Australian banks over the period 19972009, including the impact of the recent global financial crisis. Using a stochastic frontier analysis, we find that Australian banks were relatively both cost- and profit-efficient before the crisis. The crisis subsequently had an adverse effect on the profit efficiency of Australian banks, but had no significant impact on their cost efficiency. We also find that the major banks were more profit-efficient, but less cost-efficient, than their regional competitors. The article further investigates the factors determining differences in efficiency between Australian banks.
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