Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2015, 63(3), 1005-1011 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201563031005

Determinants of Bank Efficiency: Evidence from Czech Banking Sector

Rostislav Staněk
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Žerotínovo nám. 9, 601 77 Brno, Czech Republic

The paper identifies bank-specific determinants of Czech commercial bank efficiency during the period 2000-2012. The paper employs a panel version of a stochastic efficiency frontier model with time variant efficiency to identify the impact of bank size and the structure of bank's portfolio on the bank's cost and profit efficiency. The results of the estimation show that bank size has no impact on cost efficiency but it negatively influences the bank's ability to generate revenue. Cost efficiency increases with deposit-to-assets ratio and profit efficiency increases with loans-to-assets ratio. During the examined period average bank lost one fourth of its profit compared to best-practice bank.

Keywords: stochastic frontier analysis, Czech banking sector, cost efficiency, profit efficiency

Prepublished online: June 28, 2015; Published: August 1, 2015  Show citation

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Staněk, R. (2015). Determinants of Bank Efficiency: Evidence from Czech Banking Sector. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 63(3), 1005-1011. doi: 10.11118/actaun201563031005
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