Non-parametric estimates of technical efficiency of Russian banks are considered for each quarter in the period of 2002 …–2006. Two types of DEA estimates CCR (Charnes, Cooper, Rhodes, 1978) and BCC (Banker, Charnes, Cooper, 1984), are compared with … parametric SFA estimates. Semiparametric bootstrap (Simar, Wilson, 2007) is used to study statistical properties of DEA estimates …

The aim of this study is to provide a methodology for the joint estimation of efficiency and market power of individual … differences in the market power and efficiency levels of banks between the two samples. Market power estimates indicate fairly … some banks deviates from the average behavior, and this finding has important policy implications. Finally, efficiency and …

. 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 …

One learns two main lessons from studying the great quantity of banking efficiency literature. These lessons regard the … perform a Meta-Regression-Analysis (MRA) by examining 1,661 efficiency scores retrieved from 120 papers published over the … lower levels of banking efficiency than nonparametric studies. This holds true even after controlling for the approach used …

This study focuses on the technical and economic efficiency achieved in two local public service sectors … relative levels of efficiency according to different point of views: "business", "social" and "mixed" models. Anyway in this … focuses on the waste services; we estimated the economic and technological efficiency by comparing the city of Perugia to …

efficiency of Portuguese prison facilities by means of the non-parametric benchmarking approach of data envelopment analysis (DEA …

influence of the congestion effect on efficiency. The heavy burden of the health sector on the state budget brings about the … interest of research over its efficiency. This paper aims to assess the performance of the Portuguese hospitals and … particularly the contribution of the congestion effect. We use the non-parametric technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis revealed an overall improvement in the efficiency of commercial banks. It implies that … financial sector reforms, particularly the second phase of reforms, improved the efficiency of the commercial bank in Pakistan …. After the reforms, pure technical efficiency increased as compared to scale efficiency and it was found that the overall …

success? Focusing on the Big Bang’s stated objectives of promoting profitability and efficiency, this study examines the … profitability and efficiency declines on the whole, and the main targets of the deregulation, the big city, trust and long …-term credit banks, exhibit statistically significantly lower profitability and efficiency than their smaller counterparts. …

finance. Yet, and in spite of the immense interest, no study, so far, has provided any comprehensive evidence on the impact of …