Financial openness, risk and bank efficiency: cross-country evidence
Financial openness, risk and bank efficiency: cross-country evidence
This paper assesses the interrelationship between financial openness, bank risk and bank profit efficiency using a cross-country sample of 2,007 commercial banks covering 140 countries over the period 1999-2011. To establish whether the impact of financial openness on both bank risk and profit efficiency occurs directly or through each one of the two bank characteristics (efficiency and risk, respectively), we begin our analysis by investigating the potential reverse Granger causality between profit efficiency and risk using a dynamic simultaneous model via system GMM estimation. We then account explicitly for the role of bank risk in the estimation of bank profit efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis, allowing for the influence of different measures of financial openness and risk alongside other control variables. Our results indicate that financial openness reduces bank profit efficiency directly, not through changes in bank risk. We also find that financial openness increases bank risk indirectly, through the decreased bank profit efficiency channel.
Financial openness, Risk, Bank efficiency, Stochastic frontier analysis, Granger causality
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Luo, Yun
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Tanna, Sailesh
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De Vita, Glauco
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June 2016
Luo, Yun
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Tanna, Sailesh
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De Vita, Glauco
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Luo, Yun, Tanna, Sailesh and De Vita, Glauco
(2016)
Financial openness, risk and bank efficiency: cross-country evidence.
Journal of Financial Stability, 24, .
(doi:10.1016/j.jfs.2016.05.003).
Abstract
This paper assesses the interrelationship between financial openness, bank risk and bank profit efficiency using a cross-country sample of 2,007 commercial banks covering 140 countries over the period 1999-2011. To establish whether the impact of financial openness on both bank risk and profit efficiency occurs directly or through each one of the two bank characteristics (efficiency and risk, respectively), we begin our analysis by investigating the potential reverse Granger causality between profit efficiency and risk using a dynamic simultaneous model via system GMM estimation. We then account explicitly for the role of bank risk in the estimation of bank profit efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis, allowing for the influence of different measures of financial openness and risk alongside other control variables. Our results indicate that financial openness reduces bank profit efficiency directly, not through changes in bank risk. We also find that financial openness increases bank risk indirectly, through the decreased bank profit efficiency channel.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 May 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 May 2016
Published date: June 2016
Keywords:
Financial openness, Risk, Bank efficiency, Stochastic frontier analysis, Granger causality
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438340
ISSN: 1572-3089
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