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Firm and Industry Level Profit Efficiency Analysis Under Incomplete Price Data: A Nonparametric Approach based on Absolute and Uniform Shadow Prices

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika; Sipiläinen, Timo; … - EconWPA - 2005

We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of complete price information, and propose two new insights. First, choosing one commodity (whose price is known) as a numeraire good enables us to measure profit inefficiency in...

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The Effect of Scale on Productivity of Turkish Banks in the Post-Crises Period: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Chambers, Nurgul; Cifter, Atilla - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the productivity of Turkish Banks according to the effect of scale in the Post-Crises Period. The data used in this study covers the period from 2002:1 to 2004:3. We applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a non-parametric linear...

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Exploring Effectiveness and Efficiency of Banks in Switzerland

Jaouadi, Said; Zorgui, Ilhem - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 4, pp. 313-325

concepts make up a widespread in econometric literature, primarily to account for the performance determinants and optimal … bulk of papers interested in the issue of the determinants of profitability of banks. The empirical investigation described … the determinants of the profitability of Swiss banks, provides obvious explanation and bear out several conclusions in …

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Understanding Internal Capital Markets and Corporate Policies

Cremers, M.; Huang, R.; Sautner, Z. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

This study looks inside a large retail-banking group to understand how corporate politics affect internal capital allocation. The group consists of a headquarters organization and about 150 member banks which own the headquarters. Our data is from the firm’s managerial accounting system and...

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Non-Parametric Analysis of Efficiency Gains from Bank Mergers in India

Gourlay, Adrian R.; Ravishankar, Geetha; Weyman-Jones, Tom - School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University - 2006

This paper offers an insight into the effectiveness of economic policy reforms in the Indian Banking System by examining the efficiency benefits of mergers among Scheduled Commercial Banks in India over the post-reform period 1991-92 to 2004-05. It does this by using the methodology developed by...

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A note on management efficiency and international banking. Some empirical panel evidence

Hahn, Franz R. - In: Journal of Applied Economics XII (2009) May, pp. 69-81

This analysis focuses on the assumption that management efficiency is one of the most important company-specific factors affecting a bank’s international activities. The theoretical results on whether good or bad management influences international activities in banking are mixed. We attempt...

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Does corporate governance play an important role in BHC performance? Evidence from the U.S.

Wang, Wei-Kang; Lu, Wen-Min; Lin, Yi-Ling - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 751-760

This study explores the relationship between the operating performance and corporate governance of bank holding companies (BHCs) in the U.S. The modified data envelopment analysis (DEA) is utilized to integrate the five rating indicators of CAMEL (Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Management,...

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Efficiency and shareholder return in banking

Fiordelisi, Franco - In: International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 1 (2008) 2, pp. 114-132

This paper analyses the relationship between efficiency and shareholder return (using an Economic Value-Added or EVA measure) in the French, German, Italian and UK banking systems over the period of 1999â€“2002. Various hypotheses regarding the relationship between bank efficiency and...

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The Directional Profit Efficiency Measure: On Why Profit Inefficiency is either Technical or Allocative

Zofío, José Luis; Pastor, Jesús; Aparicio, Juan - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2010

The directional distance function has been introduced in the efficiency literature with the intention of relaxing the fixed orientations represented by its classical input and output counterparts. However, the criteria underlying the choice of its associated directional vector are numerous. When...

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Profit efficiency in the European Union banking industry: a directional technology distance function approach

Koutsomanoli-Filippaki, Anastasia; Margaritis, Dimitris; … - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 37 (2012) 3, pp. 277-293

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