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Determinants of profitability of community banks in the USA: a cost-frontier-based decomposition approach

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This paper investigates the determinants of the poor profitability of community banks relative to that of large banks in the USA over the period 2001–2017, by decomposing the relative profitability… Click to show full abstract

This paper investigates the determinants of the poor profitability of community banks relative to that of large banks in the USA over the period 2001–2017, by decomposing the relative profitability of community banks into five multiplicative cost-frontier-based explanatory factors. To compute these explanatory factors, we estimate a Bayesian true fixed effects stochastic cost frontier model, which has the advantages of allowing the unobserved heterogeneity term to be correlated with the observed explanatory variables and providing statistical inferences on the cost-frontier-based explanatory factors. Our decomposition shows that community banks’ lower profitability was attributable mainly to their lower technical change, lower scale efficiency and higher funding costs. In addition, the latter two factors were also the two main contributors to the deterioration in the profitability of community banks.

Keywords: profitability; profitability community; cost frontier; community banks

Journal Title: Empirical Economics
Year Published: 2020

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