Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency …

This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …-specific characteristics are found to have a considerable influence on bank efficiency …

commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 …) the effects of prudential tightening on the efficiency of banks vary across different prudential norms; and (3 …

deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress. Like other studies before us, we do not find strong evidence of … efficiency levels, while they diverged in capital deepening and technological progress …

African (MENA) countries in the period 1994 -2008. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia … by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and we employ a meta-frontier approach to calculate efficiency scores in a … bank specific variables on bank efficiency. Overall, the analysis shows that, despite similarities in the process of …

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of government spending on health care and education in Croatia by using the …

also assesses the relative efficiency of spending in education and health. The Slovak Republic spends more on social …