Abstract
Asset quality is shown to affect both the level of bank costs and estimates of scale economies in banking. Cost functions estimated with banks which have low/high non-performing loan ratios differ from cost curves estimated over the entire sample. The empirical results confirm that an increase in non-performing loans increases costs. The cost curve estimated for banks with low non-performing ratios suggests that scale economies may exist even for the largest banks.
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