This paper applies data development analysis to investigate the performance of the Saudi commercial banking industry. The technical efficiency of Saudi banks for the year 2002 is evaluated and compared with world mean efficiency scores. The study reveals that the mean efficiency score of Saudi...

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter and an important trade partner to the major industrialized countries (MICs), which include the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Germany and France. Energy-production and other data for these countries have been collected and analysed....