Modelling the effect of national culture on multinational banks' performance: A conditional robust nonparametric frontier analysis

• Published in: Economic modelling Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 515 - 525
• Main Authors: Halkos, George Emm, Tzeremes, Nickolaos G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 2011; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Series: Economic Modelling
• Subjects: Bank liquidity; Bank management; Bank operations; Banks' performance; Commercial banks; Conditional efficiency measurement; Cultural values; Culture; Efficiency; Estimating techniques; Estimation; Financial performance; International banking; International banks; Multinational corporations; National culture; Robust estimators; Robust estimators Conditional efficiency measurement Banks' performance National culture; Studies; Conditional efficiency measurement; Robust estimators; Banks' performance; C60; National culture; G21

Most of the efficiency studies of large multinational banks operating in different countries calculate banks' inefficiency levels without taking into account the environmental factors in which they are operating in. As a result the estimated inefficiencies are subject to a combination of true m...