Loan Pricing: Do Borrowers Benefit from Cost-Efficient Banking? Schlueter, Tobias Busch, Ramona Sievers, Soenke Hartmann-Wendels, Thomas interest rate pass-through models error correction models bank efficiency cost efficiency stochastic frontier analysis This study examines the loan-pricing behavior of German banks for a large variety of retail and corporate loan products. We find that a bank’s operational efficiency is priced in bank loan rates and alters interest-setting behavior. Specifically, we establish that a higher degree of operational efficiency leads to lower loan markups, which makes prices more competitive and smoothes the setting of interest rates. By employing state-of-the-art stochastic frontier efficiency measures to capture a bank’s operational efficiency, we take a look at the bank customers’ perspective and demonstrate the extent to which bor-rowers benefit from cost-efficient banking. 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/4586 Schlueter T, Busch R, Sievers S, Hartmann-Wendels T. Loan Pricing: Do Borrowers Benefit from Cost-Efficient Banking? <i>Credit and Capital Markets--Kredit und Kapital</i>. 2016;49(1):93-125. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.49.1.93">10.3790/ccm.49.1.93</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3790/ccm.49.1.93 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess