Intermediation approach

Intermediation approach

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During the global financial crisis (GFC), the Australian government introduced a deposit guarantee scheme to all the deposit accounts with financial institutions. The scheme is very similar to a deposit insurance scheme to a certain extent, though the premium is not paid by the financial institutions or the depositors. This study adopts Data Envelo...

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... precise definition of input and output variables in the banking industry is a debatable matter (Berger & Humphrey, 1997). Figure 1 and Figure 2 below shows the difference between the production and intermediation approaches. The production approach gives banks the interpretation that they are also a business. ...

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