the traditional accounting ratios and the sophisticated DEA methodology in the measurement of bank efficiency. GLS random …The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple … accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data …

efficiency and productivity measurement in insurance … describe and analyze the principal methodologies that have been developed for measuring efficiency and productivity, defining …

bank managers and regulators in China as well as in other emerging economies …This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks …

Per unit bank operating costs are found to vary significantly across Asian countries and over time. The strong … correlation between per unit labor cost and physical capital cost suggests that there exist systematic differences in bank …. Significant differences in labor cost share across countries suggest cross-country differences in bank production functions. The …

on commercial bank performance and how financial integration moderates this relationship. A dynamic GMM model reveals … the role of commercial bank deposits and foreign banking claims as sources of finance for post-disaster recovery. In …

This paper analyzes productivity with a directional distance function model by investigating convexity and non …-convexity in the Chinese banking sector. Two primary findings are summarized. First, there is a distinct change in productivity … experience local versus global technological change is small, indicating that productivity changes are driven by national rather …

To insure a proper and meaningful productivity assessment of DMUs with different production technologies, this article … develops a difference-based profit metafrontier Luenberger productivity indicator. Adopting the proposed model, we empirically … measure the profit inefficiency and examine the profit productivity convergence for samples banks consisting of 31 Taiwanese …

We investigate whether a bank’s performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank’s poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …