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Trademarking activities and total factor productivity: some evidence for British commercial banks using a metafrontier approach

Duygun, Meryem; Sena, Vania; Shaban, Mohamed

Authors

MERYEM DUYGUN Meryem.Duygun@nottingham.ac.uk
Aviva Chair in Risk and Insurance

Vania Sena

Mohamed Shaban



Abstract

In this paper, we compute a non-parametric Metafrontier Malmquist index to evaluate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) change among UK-based trademarking and non-trademarking commercial banks between 2005 and 2013. The use of the metafrontier approach allows us to: a) identify the drivers of TFP growth for each group of banks, b) compare the TFP growth of each group to the TFP growth experienced by the whole industry, and c) assess the extent to which the former catches up with the latter measured along the metafrontier. Our results suggest that TFP has been increasing among trademarking banks up to the onset of the financial crisis but this process has since reversed. The catch-up indexes suggest that both groups of banks were catching up with the metafrontier up to the financial crisis although the drivers of this process differed between the two groups. After the financial crisis, improvements in technology have been driven by a small number of commercial banks i.e. the non- trademarking banks. These results suggest that a large section of the commercial banking sector has not been able to overcome the effects of the financial crisis.

Citation

Duygun, M., Sena, V., & Shaban, M. (2016). Trademarking activities and total factor productivity: some evidence for British commercial banks using a metafrontier approach. Journal of Banking and Finance, 72(Suppl.), Article S70-S80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.04.017

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 21, 2016
Online Publication Date May 24, 2016
Publication Date Nov 30, 2016
Deposit Date Dec 1, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Banking and Finance
Print ISSN 0378-4266
Electronic ISSN 1872-6372
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 72
Issue Suppl.
Article Number S70-S80
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.04.017
Keywords Total factor productivity, Metafrontiers, DEA, Trademarks
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/826261
Publisher URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378426616300498

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