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Title: The productivity and performance of Australia's major banks since deregulation
Author(s): Abbott, Malcolm; Wu, Su; Wang, Wei Chun
Abstract: The aim of this study is to present some measures of the performance of banks operating in Australia since the deregulation of the Australian financial system in early 1980s; including the periods of financial market instability (the early 1990s and mid to late 2000s). In undertaking this measurement two approaches will be used. The first simply applies standard financial indicators. The second approach applies data envelopment analysis (DEA), to determine Malmquist indices of the levels of and the changes in the efficiency and productivity of Australian banks. The empirical results demonstrate the effect of deregulation and periodic financial crisis's on the performance of individual banks, and the major part of the Australian banking sector. Overall the productivity performance of the Australian banks tended to improve considerably in those periods of strongest economic growth (i.e. the mid 1980s and 2000s).
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 37, no. 1 (Jan 2013), pp. 122-135
Publication year: 2013
FOR Code(s): 1502 Banking, Finance and Investment
Keyword(s): Australia; Banks; Data Envelopment Analysis; DEA; Deregulation; Performance; Productivity
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 1055-0925
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12197-011-9172-0
Peer reviewed