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1 GENERAL COST STRUCTURE ANALYSIS Theory and Application to the Banking Industry
2 GENERAL COST STRUCTURE ANAL YSIS Theory and Application to the Banking Industry by Ziad Sarkis University of Oxford ~. " Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sarkis, Ziad. General cost structure analysis : theory and application to the banking industry / by Ziad Sarkis. p. cm. lnc\udes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Banks and banking -- Costs -- Econometric models. 2. Cost accounting. 1. Title. HG 1588.S '068'1 -- dc CIP Copyright 1999 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Origina1ly published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York in 1999 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 1999 Ali rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo-copying, record ing, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Printed an acid-free paper.
4 To my family for so much unwavering encouragement and unconditional support
5 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Theoretical Framework Generalised Firm Program Previous Approaches Flexible Cost Model (FCM) Primal Characterisation Dual Characterisation: Globally Regular Functional Forms Dual Characterisation: General Case 2.4 Comparative Statics Empirical Modelling 3.1 Empirical Context and Issues 3.2 Output and Input Measurement 3.3 Dataset Empirical Specification Parametric Specification Stochastic Specification and Estimation Methodology Dual Characterisation
6 viii Contents 4 Empirical Results Econometric Results Single Equation Estimation: Core Results Single Equation Estimation: Restrictions and Extensions System Estimation Evidence of Output Measurement Error Scale Effects Primal Measurement Dual Measurement Capacity Utilisation Effects Allocative Efficiency Indices Capacity Utilisation Rates Economic Consequences Impact of Labour Market Rigidities Sources of International Cost Position Differences Conclusion 89 6 Bibliography 93 7 Appendix: Dataset Statistics 101 Index 117
7 Acknowledgments I wish to express my particular gratitude to: Kenneth Arrow, for his ever kind and patient guidance; Richard Smethurst and John Vickers, who generously opened Oxford's doors to me; Colin Mayer, for his essential counsel and insightful observations; Steve Bond and Bronwyn Hall, to whom lowe a considerable intellectual debt; and Allard Winterink, senior editor at Kluwer Academic Publishers, for his remarkable efficiency. Naturally, the responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies rests solely with me.
8 LIST OF FIGURES 3.1. Evolution of price of labour Evolution of price of technology Evolution of mean labour/technology ratio Cost/income ratio vs. number of employees Evolution of mean production function residual Scale effects metric vs. number of employees Cost/income ratio vs. logarithm of output value: first derivative Cost/income ratio vs. logarithm of output value: second derivative Cost/income ratio vs. number of employees: ceteris paribus relation Evolution of mean value of first-order condition residual Distribution of first-order condition residual Production function residual vs. first-order condition residual Production function residual vs. first-order condition residual: first sub-sample Production function residual vs. first-order condition residual: second sub-sample Output approximation error: first-order Taylor series Output approximation error: second-order Taylor series Output approximation error: third-order Taylor series Labour capacity utilisation rate vs. first-order condition residual Cost/income ratio vs. first-order condition residual: first derivative Cost surcharge vs. first-order condition residual
9 LIST OF TABLES 3.1. Mean value of cost/income ratio Production function estimation: results... '" Production function estimation: notes Cobb-Douglas estimation System estimation Mean value of first-order condition residual: detail Mean output approximation error Mean value of labour capacity utilisation rate Mean value of technology capacity utilisation rate Mean value of cost surcharge Impact of labour market rigidities Sources of cost differences: first sub-sample Sources of cost differences: second sub-sample Number of observations by sub-sample.., Observations meeting production function regularity conditions Observations meeting all regularity conditions Selected firm-level statistics: France Selected firm-level statistics: Germany Selected firm-level statistics: Japan... '" Selected firm-level statistics: UK Selected firm-level statistics: US
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