Frontier efficiency, capital structure, and portfolio risk: An empirical analysis of U.S. banks

dc.citation.firstpage262en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleBRQ Business Research Quarterlyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage277en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber21en_US
dc.contributor.authorDing, Dongen_US
dc.contributor.authorSickles, Robin C.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-24T16:07:55Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-01-24T16:07:55Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractFirm’ ability to effectively allocate capital and manage risks is the essence of their production and performance. This study investigated the relationship between capital structure, portfolio risk levels and firm performance using a large sample of U.S. banks from 2001 to 2016. Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) was used to construct a frontier to measure the firm's cost efficiency as a proxy for firm performance. We further look at their relationship by dividing the sample into different size and ownership classes, as well as the most and least efficient banks. The empirical evidence suggests that more efficient banks increase capital holdings and take on greater credit risk while reducing risk-weighted assets. Moreover, it appears that increasing the capital buffer impacts risk-taking by banks depending on their level of cost efficiency, which is a placeholder for how productive their intermediation services are performed. An additional finding, is that the direction of the relationship between risk-taking and capital buffers differs depending on what measure of risk is used.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDing, Dong and Sickles, Robin C.. "Frontier efficiency, capital structure, and portfolio risk: An empirical analysis of U.S. banks." <i>BRQ Business Research Quarterly,</i> 21, no. 4 (2018) Elsevier: 262-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brq.2018.09.002.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalFrontier-efficiencyen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.brq.2018.09.002en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/105117en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-NDlicense(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordCapital regulationen_US
dc.subject.keywordFrontier efficiencyen_US
dc.subject.keywordRisken_US
dc.subject.keywordFirm performanceen_US
dc.titleFrontier efficiency, capital structure, and portfolio risk: An empirical analysis of U.S. banksen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpublisher versionen_US
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