to measure the effects of financial reforms in banks productivity and efficiency in the WAEMU area during the 1996 …-2006 period, and secondly, to draw the mains managerial determinants of banks efficiency. The productivity and efficiency scores … scale efficiency while State-owned banks recorded the weakest efficiency and productivity scores. We furthermore conclude …

This phd contributes to the definition of efficiency measures and productivity indicator, in the microeconomic theory … efficiency and productivity. It is shown that the directional measure, under the assumption of constant returns to scale, raises … measures do not allow to evaluate efficiency and productivity changes. An alternative approach is proposed which overcomes this …