Robust nonparametric estimation of efficiency and technical change in U.S. commercial banking

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Robust nonparametric estimation of efficiency and technical change in U.S. commercial banking

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David C. Wheelock
Paul Wilson

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This paper examines the performance of the U.S. commercial banking industry over 1984-2002. Rather than measuring performance relative to the unknown (and difficult-to-estimate) boundary of the production set, performance for a given bank is measured relative to expected maximum output among m banks using no more of each input than the given bank. This approach permits fully non-parametric estimation with vn-consistency avoiding the usual curse of dimensionality that plagues traditional non-parametric efficiency estimators. The resulting estimates are robust with respect to outliers and noise in the data.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in its series Working Papers with number 2003-037.

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- Paul W. Wilson & David C. Wheelock, 2004. "Robust Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency and Technical Change in U.S. Commercial Banking," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 433, Econometric Society.

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