The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and its factors for Indian bank groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity in the bank sizes, we perform DEA to estimate PE for small, medium, and large banks across different ownership....

Market return represents the total return of the market index. It is found that performance of the few sectoral indexes is very high compared to the market index return. This study finds the variance in all sectoral indices and the market Index (BSE) return and illustrates the significance of...

This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of their business performance and trends during the period. The extant literature suggests that conventional ratio-based performance measures are inadequate to address the different...

In the present study, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to estimate scale efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012. The given period was characterized by global financial crisis, rapid regulatory reforms and intense competition among Indian banking sector. The results showed...