Bank performance analysis

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to overview the current state of the art analysis of banking performance. For this, we navigate through the literature that has been prospering during the recent decades. In particular, we start with a brief discussion of the ratio analysis for measuring bank performance, which is still very popular in practice.Then we consider such popular productivity and efficiency analysis methods as data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Then, we provide a brief review of other econometric methods that became leading in the recent finance literature that involve techniques of casual inference, including difference-in-differences (DD) and regression discontinuity design (RDD).