| Inside the black box: What explains differences in the efficiencies of financial institutions? AN Berger, LJ Mester Journal of banking & finance 21 (7), 895-947, 1997 | 3793 | 1997 |
| A study of bank efficiency taking into account risk-preferences LJ Mester Journal of banking & finance 20 (6), 1025-1045, 1996 | 1110 | 1996 |
| Explaining the dramatic changes in performance of US banks: technological change, deregulation, and dynamic changes in competition AN Berger, LJ Mester Journal of financial intermediation 12 (1), 57-95, 2003 | 887 | 2003 |
| What’s the point of credit scoring LJ Mester Business review 3 (Sep/Oct), 3-16, 1997 | 785 | 1997 |
| Deposits and relationship lending M Berlin, LJ Mester The Review of Financial Studies 12 (3), 579-607, 1999 | 693 | 1999 |
| Efficiency in the savings and loan industry LJ Mester Journal of Banking & Finance 17 (2-3), 267-286, 1993 | 621 | 1993 |
| Bank capitalization and cost: Evidence of scale economies in risk management and signaling JP Hughes, LJ Mester Review of economics and statistics 80 (2), 314-325, 1998 | 594 | 1998 |
| Debt covenants and renegotiation M Berlin, LJ Mester Journal of Financial Intermediation 2 (2), 95-133, 1992 | 594 | 1992 |
| A quality and risk-adjusted cost function for banks: Evidence on the “too-big-to-fail” doctrine JP Hughes, LJ Mester Journal of productivity analysis 4 (3), 293-315, 1993 | 560 | 1993 |
| Consumer behavior and the stickiness of credit-card interest rates PS Calem, LJ Mester The American Economic Review 85 (5), 1327-1336, 1995 | 545 | 1995 |
| Are scale economies in banking elusive or illusive?: Evidence obtained by incorporating capital structure and risk-taking into models of bank production JP Hughes, LJ Mester, CG Moon Journal of Banking & Finance 25 (12), 2169-2208, 2001 | 542 | 2001 |
| The dollars and sense of bank consolidation JP Hughes, WW Lang, LJ Mester, CG Moon Journal of banking & finance 23 (2-4), 291-324, 1999 | 475 | 1999 |
| Efficient banking under interstate branching JP Hughes, W Lang, LJ Mester, CG Moon Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 28 (4), 1045-1071, 1996 | 465 | 1996 |
| Who said large banks don’t experience scale economies? Evidence from a risk-return-driven cost function JP Hughes, LJ Mester Journal of Financial Intermediation 22 (4), 559-585, 2013 | 458 | 2013 |
| A multiproduct cost study of savings and loans LJ Mester The Journal of finance 42 (2), 423-445, 1987 | 425 | 1987 |
| Transactions accounts and loan monitoring LJ Mester, LI Nakamura, M Renault The Review of Financial Studies 20 (3), 529-556, 2007 | 361 | 2007 |
| Measuring efficiency at US banks: Accounting for heterogeneity is important LJ Mester European Journal of Operational Research 98 (2), 230-242, 1997 | 361 | 1997 |
| On the profitability and cost of relationship lending M Berlin, LJ Mester Journal of Banking & Finance 22 (6-8), 873-897, 1998 | 345 | 1998 |
| A positive analysis of bank closure GJ Mailath, LJ Mester Journal of Financial Intermediation 3 (3), 272-299, 1994 | 303 | 1994 |
| Efficiency in banking: Theory, practice, and evidence JP Hughes, LJ Mester FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper, 2008 | 300 | 2008 |
