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Technical efficiency of Indian commercial banks: an empirical analysis

Chowdhury, Subroto - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 13 (2012) 3/4, pp. 450-472

Indian banking has witnessed reforms since 1991 thus providing it with operational flexibility and institutional transformation. The reforms have strengthened the fundamentals of the Indian banking sector. Still more the resilience of the Indian banking sector in withstanding financial crisis...

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Data envelopment analysis to the Italian university system: theoretical issues and policy implications

Agasisti, Tommaso; Bianco, Antonio Dal - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 8 (2006) 4, pp. 344-367

In this paper, we consider the problem of determining technical efficiency of the Italian universities, focusing on policy and benchmarking implications. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the individual university's efficiency is computed. We run several elaborations matching teaching and...

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The impact of risk on technical and scale efficiency: empirical evidence from the China banking sector

Sufian, Fadzlan - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2010) 1, pp. 37-71

By employing the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method, this paper examines the impact of risks on China banks' technical and scale efficiency estimates. To do so, we follow the procedures set out by Drake and Hall (2003) to include risk factor as a non-discretionary input variable. The results...

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An analysis of the technical efficiency of Indian public sector banks through DEA approach

Baidya, Manas Kumar; Mitra, Debabrata - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 13 (2012) 3/4, pp. 341-365

The purpose of this paper is to measure and evaluate the technical efficiency of 26 Indian public sector banks from the cross-section data of the financial year 2009-2010 and to provide ranking of efficiency to these banks using two popular data envelopment analysis (DEA) models: CCR and...

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Efficiency of public sector banks operating in India: post-reforms period analysis

Rajput, Namita; Gupta, Monika - In: Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting 2 (2011) 4, pp. 349-368

The Indian banking sector has witnessed a series of reforms since 1991 with the major objective to promote flexibility, operational autonomy and competition in the system and to raise the banking standards in India to the international best practices. There is a change in the importance of...

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Evaluating the efficiency of the global primary aluminum smelting industry: a data envelopment approach

Blomberg, Jerry; Jonsson, Bo - In: Mineral Economics 24 (2011) 1, pp. 29-44

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the global primary aluminum industry. Efficiency is here taken to be evaluated relative to some benchmark, i.e., the smelter or smelters identified as the most efficient in the data set, thus forming the production frontier. The...

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Efficiency and Productivity of Singapore's Manufacturing Sector 2001-2010: An analysis using Simar and Wilson's (2007) bootstrapped truncated approach

Lee, Boon L - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2012

This paper seeks to explain the lagging productivity in Singapore's manufacturing noted in the statements of the Economic Strategies Committee Report 2010. Two methods are employed: the Malmquist productivity to measure total factor productivity change and Simar and Wilson's (J Econ,...

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Energy use efficiency in greenhouse tomato production in Iran

Pahlavan, Reza; Omid, Mahmoud; Akram, Asadollah - In: Energy 36 (2011) 12, pp. 6714-6719

Efficient use of energy in agriculture is one of the conditions for sustainable production. In the present study energy use pattern for tomato production in Iran was investigated and a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique was applied to analyze the technical and scale...

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Analyzing the technical efficiency of insurance companies in GCC

Al-Amri, Khalid; Gattoufi, Said; Al-Muharrami, Saeed - In: Journal of Risk Finance 13 (2012), pp. 362-380

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performances of the insurance sector in Gulf Cooperation Council … efficiencies of insurance companies. Findings – The study considers 39 insurance firms in the region, with a panel data covering … the period 2005-2007. The authors found that the insurance industry in the GCC is moderately efficient and there is large …

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Malmquist indices of productivity change in India's chemical industry: a subsector-level analysis

Ray, Sarbapriya; Ray, Ishita Aditya - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 16-36

This paper investigates Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and efficiency growth pattern for India's chemical industry for the period, 1992-1993 to 2007-2008 at subsector level. Malmquist Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to estimate different performance measures, viz. productivity...

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