the scale effect can be measured with DEA scale efficiency measurement, we used scale indicators as input variables in … order to find out not only scale efficiency but also scale affect directly. We applied DEA by using financial ratios …/total assets. We find that difference in efficiency is mainly from technical efficiency rather than scale efficiency in the post …

This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary … outreach. For this purpose, we use a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the social efficiency on the one hand and the … financial efficiency on the other hand. Our results show that sustainability prevails. Indeed, we observe an increase in …

The purpose is to investigate the efficiency levels of commercial domestic versus foreign banks in France by comparing … cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks operating in France using unbalanced sample, including 62 domestic and 40 … foreign banks over the period 2000-2007. We show that foreign banks exhibit higher cost and profit efficiency than domestic …

Our study aims at analyzing Islamic bank efficiency over the period 2001-2008. We found that they were efficient at 92 …%. The level of efficiency could however vary according to the region where they operate. Asia displays the highest score … efficiency scores superior to the average. The subprime crisis seems to have impacted those banks indirectly. And market power …

Malmquist TFP Change Index and its mutually exclusive and exhaustive components of efficiency and technological changes over … time. Additionally, we further decompose the technical efficiency change into pure technical and scale efficiency changes … rather than efficiency increase. For the cases of productivity decline, however, the changes come from the efficiency side …

The objective of this study has been to estimate the efficiency and sustainability of microfinance institution working … in the South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. For the efficiency analysis we used non parametric … returns to scale. The technical efficiency figures for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India are 0.395, 0.087, and 0.28, respectively …

. which attracted more and more customers using the banking’ services; the efficiency of the banking system also has been … increasing. So far, there is still a lack of research on the efficiency of the banking sector in Vietnam over the decades … front gate. This paper, which focuses on evaluating the efficiency of bigger sample size of Vietnamese commercial banks in …

This research employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist index approaches to evaluate the efficiency and …