Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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963555 | Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money | 2009 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
This paper investigates the productivity change of Japanese credit banks with a Malmquist index and the input technological bias during 2000-2006. Our results indicate that the traditional growth accounting method, which assumes Hicks neutral technological change, is not appropriate for analyzing changes in productivity. Our analysis unambiguously shows that management of Shinkin banks has to be improved. These must be based on the improvement of technical efficiency and/or technological change, emulating the procedures of the best-practice banks, i.e., those banks with Malmquist productivity scores higher than one and simultaneously with technical efficiency and technological change higher than one.
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Authors
Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi, Roman Matousek,