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title: Determinants of Bank Performance: Evidence from Replicating Portfolios
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4822187/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4822187
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4822187
featured: 2024-05-15
citations: 2
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Determinants of Bank Performance: Evidence from Replicating Portfolios

A new bank performance metric reveals that structural issues like cost inefficiencies primarily cause underperformance, with high-performing banks being less dependent on government aid and more shock-resistant.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4822187
- Identifier: SSRN 4822187
- Released: 2024-05-09
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 49 (2024-05-15): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-15/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 2
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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