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Économies d’échelle et de gamme dans les coopératives de services financiers : une approche non paramétrique (DEA)

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Mario Fortin () (GREDI, Département d'économique, Université de Sherbrooke)
Andre Leclerc () (Secteur sciences humaines, Université de Moncton, campus d’Edmundston)

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Lorsque des économies d’échelle et de gamme sont simultanément présentes, le regroupement des établissements tend à réduire les coûts. De nombreuses études empiriques ont déjà établi qu’au-delà d’une certaine taille, les coûts des banques tendent à devenir proportionnels. Il y aurait donc une limite à ces économies d’échelle et de gamme. Nous vérifions si l’important processus de fusions des caisses Desjardins du Québec et des caisses acadiennes entrepris en 1998 les a poussées au-delà de leur seuil minimal d’efficacité. Une analyse par lissage exponentiel montre que le coût moyen d’opération cesse de diminuer lorsque l’actif des caisses atteint 250 millions de dollars. Nous procédons à une estimation formelle de cette conclusion à l’aide de la méthode du Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Notre estimation combine les méthodes maintenant bien connues pour calculer l’efficacité d’échelle avec le DEA à un résultat de Fortin et Leclerc (2006) montrant que les économies de gamme peuvent se décomposer en efficacité d’échelle et en une mesure de convexité de la fonction de production. Nos montrons que la plupart des fusions ont amené la caisse fusionnée à une taille telle qu’elle se situe en situation de rendement d’échelle décroissant. La recherche de la taille optimale ne semble donc pas être la première préoccupation dans la décision de fusion.

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Keywords: Scale efficiency; mergers; banking; DEA;

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G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages
G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance

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