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- Title
Scale Efficiency in Canadian Trust Companies.
- Authors
Breslaw, Jon A.; McIntosj, James
- Abstract
A new method for estimating a relative scale function is derived which does not require the specification or estimation of the firm's cost function. The method is applied to a panel of Canadian trust companies for the years 1985-1988. Results show that the industry scale function is convex with respect to firm size, as measured by the firm's assets. The method avoids a number of shortcomings associated with traditional studies of scale economies in financial institutions.
- Subjects
CANADA; TRUST companies; BANKING industry; CORPORATIONS; FINANCIAL institutions; SIZE of industries
- Publication
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1997, Vol 8, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
0895-562X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1007707721582