Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163473 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SUERF Studies No. 2006/3
Publisher: 
SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum, Vienna
Abstract: 
We examine whether the European settlement institutions are technically efficient. This is done by means of estimating a translog cost function, and investigating whether scale economies are fully exploited. Since the sample is quite heterogeneous, fixed effects regression is introduced. From the results obtained, there clearly are economies of scale in this industry throughout all output ranges. This implies that further consolidation in this industry probably is ahead.
Subjects: 
Technical Efficiency in Settlement and Safekeeping
Estimating Cost Functions on Panel Data
Sample Heterogeneity and Fixed Effects
JEL: 
C8
D2
G2
L8
ISBN: 
978-3-902109-33-0
Document Type: 
Research Report

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