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What Drives Profitability: Level or Growth Efficiency?

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  • Misra, Biswa Swarup
  • Sahoo, Biresh

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Examining the impact of ratio-based efficiency metrics, such as cost-to-income-ratio, and multifactor-based level efficiency on profitability can be potentially misleading. Our examination of Indian banks spanning the period from 2006 to 2023 reveals that profitability is significantly influenced by multifactor-based growth efficiency, rather than level efficiency. Notably, this finding remains robust when using either conventional or risk-adjusted measure of market power.

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  • Misra, Biswa Swarup & Sahoo, Biresh, 2024. "What Drives Profitability: Level or Growth Efficiency?," MPRA Paper 120360, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 05 Mar 2024.
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    Keywords

    Profitability; Level efficiency; Growth efficiency; Lerner index; Indian banking;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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