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AUTHOR
Aude Hubrecht
MESURE DE LA PERFORMANCE GLOBALE DES AGENCES BANCAIRES : UNE APPLICATION DE LA MÉTHODE DEA
In a DEA framework, the global performance of bank branches is measured and decomposed in technical efficiency and price efficiency.
Impact of Trade Area Environment on Bank’s Comparative Advantages
This paper analyzes the relationship between the comparative advantages of bank branches and the trade area environment. Bank branches are points of sale whose trade environment influences their activities and performance. Comparative advantages are defined, for each output mix, by the strict dominance of a production technology in a specific trade area over the production technologies of other environments. Using Shephard’s output distance functions on a sample of 728 bank branches, we compare the production technologies for different output mixes and different trade environments. We show that none of the production technologies strictly dominates the others and none of them is strictly do…