{"product_id":"9781118541586","title":"Efficiency and Productivity Growth: Modelling in the Financial Services Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis with applications in both the banking and finance industry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn light of the recent global financial crisis, several studies have examined the efficiency of financial institutions. A number of open questions remain and this book reviews recent issues and state-of-the-art techniques in the assessment of the efficiency and productivity of financial institutions. Written by an international team of experts, the first part of the book links efficiency with a variety of topics like Latin American banking, market discipline and governance, economics of scale, off-balance-sheet activities, productivity of foreign banks, mergers and acquisitions, and mutual fund ratings. The second part of the book compares existing techniques and state-of-the-art techniques in the bank efficiency literature, including among others, network data envelopment analysis and quantile regression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is suitable for academics and professionals as well as postgraduate research students working in banking and finance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEfficiency and Productivity Growth: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an authoritative introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis with applications in both the banking and mutual funds industry such as efficiency of Asian banks, cooperatives and not-for-profit credit associations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores contemporary research issues in the area of efficiency and productivity measurement in the financial sector.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEvaluates the most suitable approaches to selecting inputs and outputs as well as selecting the most efficient techniques, such as parametric and non-parametric, to estimate the models.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078230524144,"sku":"9781118541586","price":118.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118541586_p0.jpg?v=1763694605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118541586","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}