For the measurment of the efficiency in the banking sector, different approaches to model the production process have been developed. The impact of a chosen approach on the results is not clear so far. In this context, the aim of this study is to compare the inter-mediation approach and the...

Although a huge literature has analysed the efficiency of the banking sector over the last years, only recently the importance to integrate further factors in the analysis has been mentioned. This paper, employing the non-parametric DEA approach to evaluate the efficiency of the Bavarian...