A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS

The purpose of this study is to assess to what extent the business model practiced by investment banks, before the beginning of the financial crisis, has influenced their performance indicators, and especially those who express shareholders' satisfaction. To this end, we have applied a nonparam...

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Main Authors: TEODORA CRISTINA BARBU, NICOLAE DARDAC, IUSTINA ALINA BOITAN
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Language:English
Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2011-04-01
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NICOLAE DARDAC
IUSTINA ALINA BOITAN
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description The purpose of this study is to assess to what extent the business model practiced by investment banks, before the beginning of the financial crisis, has influenced their performance indicators, and especially those who express shareholders' satisfaction. To this end, we have applied a nonparametric method, called Data Envelopment Analysis, which allows obtaining the efficiency scores for each financial institution considered. The sample included two pure investment banks, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, and seven international financial groups carrying out investment banking activities. The model tested assumed the maximization of selected output variables (ROE and the dividend distributed), by considering several input variables, meant to summarize the risk profile and costs arising from implementing a particular business model. The results obtained, in the form of high inefficiency scores, indicate that the business model of investment banks was not better performing than that applied by financial groups, because it failed to ensure a balance between ownership compensation and sustainable expansion of financial activity.
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spelling doaj-art-b2a28fc310cf4daabd59ef824ee11b832025-01-02T08:55:05ZengNicolae Titulescu University Publishing HouseChallenges of the Knowledge Society2068-77962011-04-011-13791389A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISISTEODORA CRISTINA BARBUNICOLAE DARDACIUSTINA ALINA BOITANThe purpose of this study is to assess to what extent the business model practiced by investment banks, before the beginning of the financial crisis, has influenced their performance indicators, and especially those who express shareholders' satisfaction. To this end, we have applied a nonparametric method, called Data Envelopment Analysis, which allows obtaining the efficiency scores for each financial institution considered. The sample included two pure investment banks, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, and seven international financial groups carrying out investment banking activities. The model tested assumed the maximization of selected output variables (ROE and the dividend distributed), by considering several input variables, meant to summarize the risk profile and costs arising from implementing a particular business model. The results obtained, in the form of high inefficiency scores, indicate that the business model of investment banks was not better performing than that applied by financial groups, because it failed to ensure a balance between ownership compensation and sustainable expansion of financial activity.http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2011_articles/index.php?dir=02_economy%2F&download=cks_2011_economy_art_058.pdfinvestment banksbusiness modeldata envelopment analysisefficiency score
spellingShingle TEODORA CRISTINA BARBU
NICOLAE DARDAC
IUSTINA ALINA BOITAN
A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS
Challenges of the Knowledge Society
investment banks
business model
data envelopment analysis
efficiency score
title A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS
title_full A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS
title_fullStr A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS
title_full_unstemmed A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS
title_short A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENT BANKS' EFFICIENCY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS
title_sort nonparametric analysis of investment banks efficiency in the current global crisis
topic investment banks
business model
data envelopment analysis
efficiency score
url http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2011_articles/index.php?dir=02_economy%2F&download=cks_2011_economy_art_058.pdf
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