Joseph P. Hughes

Bank Capitalization and Cost: Evidence of Scale Economies in Risk Management and Signaling

Joseph P. Hughes, Loretta J. Mester · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 1998 · 413 citations

Bank Capitalization, Financial Risk Management, Central Banking +16

A quality and risk-adjusted cost function for banks: Evidence on the ?too-big-to-fail? doctrine

Joseph P. Hughes, Loretta J. Mester · Journal of Productivity Analysis · 1993 · 413 citations

Risk-adjusted Cost Function, Financial System, Financial Economics +7

The dollars and sense of bank consolidation

Joseph P. Hughes, William W. Lang, Loretta J. Mester et al. · Journal of Banking & Finance · 1999 · 317 citations · Full text

Bank Consolidation, Central Banking, Law +19

Who said large banks don’t experience scale economies? Evidence from a risk-return-driven cost function

Joseph P. Hughes, Loretta J. Mester · Journal of Financial Intermediation · 2013 · 275 citations

Economics, Financial System, Financial Economics +8

Efficient Banking under Interstate Branching

Joseph P. Hughes, William Lang, Loretta J. Mester et al. · Journal of money credit and banking · 1996 · 267 citations