This paper estimates commercial banks’ efficiency in three relatively homogenous groups of countries with different … European integration and economic situation are visible also in banking efficiency. Thus we test the hypothesis that the higher … degree of European economic integration and economic development goes hand in hand with higher baking efficiency. Employing …

This paper is the first attempt to estimate commercial banks’ efficiency in the Visegrad region before joining the EU … and also to consider differences in efficiency across the countries. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, we analyze which … efficiency since 1999. Incorporating censored Tobit regression analysis we try to detect whether the cross-country differences …

The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …

This paper focuses on Stochastic Dominance (SD) efficiency in a finite empirical panel data. We analytically …. Using these insights, we develop simple Linear Programming and 0-1 Mixed Integer Linear Programming tests of SD efficiency …. The advantage to the earlier efficiency tests is that the proposed approach explicitly accounts for diversification …

This paper investigates efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and productivity growth using Malmquist index … compared to managerial efficiency. In general, smaller banks are less efficient and highly DEA-efficient banks have a high … and loans and other earning assets as output in the DEA analysis we observe no significant growth in productivity during …

Do Islamic banks perform efficiently? Although the phenomenon of Islamic banking and finance has developed … performance of 18 Islamic banks over the period 1997-2000. Unlike previous studies, this paper is based on efficiency measurement … slight inefficiencies during the global crisis 1998-9. Efficiency differences across the sample data appear to be mainly …

, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency level for each animal oriented type of farm in the sample. The production frontier and efficiency index for each type … of farm (assuming no specific production functions) are identified using DEA techniques. We then address the relationship …