Assessing output and productivity growth in the banking industry |
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Authors: | Panayiotis P. Athanasoglou Evangelia A. Georgiou Christos C. Staikouras |
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Affiliation: | 1. Bank of Greece, Greece;2. Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece |
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Abstract: | This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990–2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical approaches, while for the estimation of output and productivity (partial and total factor) we relied on the index number method (Tornqvist index). We also considered the effect of labor quality on banks’ productivity and the contribution of total factor productivity to bank output growth. Bank output and labor productivity outpaced considerably the respective GDP growth and labor productivity of the Greek economy during the period under examination. Capital and total factor productivity have also improved remarkably mainly since 1999, due to the structural changes that took place within the industry, capital (mainly IT) investments and improvement in the quality of human capital. |
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