productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … profitability, efficiency and productivity. …

deposits; and five output variables as i) net profit-losses/total assets (ROA), ii) net profit-losses/total shareholders equity … selected profitability ratios. The application of this paper based on other financial ratios with decreasing and increasing …

I use the stochastic frontier methodology to estimate a cost and a profit frontier functions. The Fourier-flexible form … domestic banks, domestic banks are more profit efficient than foreign banks, in Haiti. The paper reveals also that, although … treasury bills constitute an alternative source of profit for banks in Haiti, a growth of interest rate on treasury bills …

In this paper, we compare standard approaches used to handle losses in logarithmic stochastic profit frontier models … with a simple novel approach. We discuss discriminatory power, rank stability and precision of profit efficiency scores. Our … new method enhances rank stability and discriminatory power, and improves the precision of profit efficiency scores. …

on the revenue side of banking activity. The decomposition of profit efficiency shows that a large portion of outlay lost … is due to allocative inefficiency. The proximate determinants of profit efficiency appears to suggest that big state …-owned banks performed reasonably well and are more likely to operate at higher levels of profit efficiency. A close relationship …

Appropriate choice of cropping systems to local agro-ecology increases profitability and employment. The increased … labour shortage and reduced profitability are growing concerns to the farmers. Keeping this, the paper written with the … following objectives: i) To assess the profitability among different cropping systems in the semi-arid tropics; ii) To assess …