The paper attempted to investigate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the Swiss banking sector, through the … elaboration of solid econometric approaches focusing on solid scientific methodologies: effectiveness and efficiency. The two … favour of the Swiss banks. In fact, the present paper underlines that banks in Switzerland are acting with efficiency and …

This study examines the efficiency of the financial sector in African countries. It aims to investigate if ìThe … intermediation process and efficiency in the banking system (Vittas, 1991; Howard & Haynes, 2001). In this paper, the cost function …

Previous studies mostly focus on bank performance, but few studies have effectively investigated how efficiency is … issuance and credit revolvers reduce bank efficiency during card insolvency crisis in the Taiwanese banking industry. The … results show that the credit card insolvency crisis reduces bank efficiency. Particularly, banks with low card issuance levels …

Over the past several years, substantial research effort has gone into measuring the efficiency of financial … measured efficiency. This paper examines several possible sources, including differences in efficiency concept, measurement … method, and a number of bank, market, and regulatory characteristics. We review the existing literature and provide new …

from the cross-section efficiency literature. Our most striking result is that during 1991-1997, cost productivity worsened …

sector bank with several thousand branches across India. We find considerable variation in the average levels of efficiency …This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis to measure labor use efficiency of individual branches of a large public … efficiency for each region relative to the nation as a whole. Our findings suggest that the policies, procedures, and incentives …

The objective of this study is to examine technical efficiency and productivity growth in the Indian banking sector …

This study examines the effect of banking sector consolidation on bank profit and cost efficiency using data from Japan …. Our analysis shows that bank merger events have little impact on profit efficiency, but significantly lower cost … efficiency. This suggests that government-coordinated consolidation of banks, especially in a post-crisis environment, results in …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. … efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the period 2002–2011. Granger-causality tests are performed in a dynamic GMM …