The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018

This paper examines the financial performance of the Internet-only bank, and investigate whether the Internet-only bank can outperform the traditional bank. The analysis is based on the banks in the US from 2009 to 2018, and is measured by the fixed effects model. Overall, the empirical suggests tha...

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Main Author: Shen, Shiming
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/57960/
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description This paper examines the financial performance of the Internet-only bank, and investigate whether the Internet-only bank can outperform the traditional bank. The analysis is based on the banks in the US from 2009 to 2018, and is measured by the fixed effects model. Overall, the empirical suggests that Internet-only banks tend to underperform traditional banks on profitability. Besides, there is no reduction in overhead costs due to the lack of physical branches. However, this paper further discusses the scale economies and experience economies between two different business models, examining whether technology can internalize additional scale effects or more experience effects. The results find that technology based scale and experience effects favour pure-play Internet banks, which means the technology skills indeed improve the performance.
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spelling nottingham-579602022-12-02T13:09:38Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/57960/ The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018 Shen, Shiming This paper examines the financial performance of the Internet-only bank, and investigate whether the Internet-only bank can outperform the traditional bank. The analysis is based on the banks in the US from 2009 to 2018, and is measured by the fixed effects model. Overall, the empirical suggests that Internet-only banks tend to underperform traditional banks on profitability. Besides, there is no reduction in overhead costs due to the lack of physical branches. However, this paper further discusses the scale economies and experience economies between two different business models, examining whether technology can internalize additional scale effects or more experience effects. The results find that technology based scale and experience effects favour pure-play Internet banks, which means the technology skills indeed improve the performance. 2019-12-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/57960/1/14340909_%20N14157_The%20performance%20of%20internet-only%20banks%20Evidence%20from%20the%20U.S.%20in%202009-2018.pdf Shen, Shiming (2019) The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Internet-only banks Profitability US
spellingShingle Internet-only banks
Profitability
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Shen, Shiming
The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018
title The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018
title_full The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018
title_fullStr The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018
title_full_unstemmed The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018
title_short The performance of internet-only banks: Evidence from the U.S. in 2009-2018
title_sort performance of internet-only banks: evidence from the u.s. in 2009-2018
topic Internet-only banks
Profitability
US
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/57960/