Kirkwood, Joshua; Nahm, Daehoon - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005
This paper considers cost and profit efficiency for Australian banks between 1995 and 2002. Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA) is used to construct an efficient frontier for ten banks listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Empirical results … indicate the major banks have improved their cost and profit efficiency, while the regional banks have experienced little …