In this paper we evaluate the financial performance of virtually all of the branch offices of a large European savings bank for a recent six-month accounting period. We employ a complementary pair of nonparametric techniques to evaluate their financial performance, in terms of their ability to...

Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: A Systematic Literature Review with Bibliometric Analysis -- Chapter 2. Acceleration of large-scale DEA computations using random forest classification -- Chapter 3. The estimation of productive efficiency through machine learning techniques:...

The purpose of this paper is to compare the abilities of two competing analytical techniques---mathematical programming and statistical regression---to shed light on the union/nonunion productivity differential in U.S. surface coal mining. The programming approach has the virtues of being...

Recent cross-country comparisons of bank efficiency have been based on pooled estimates of banks across countries and have typically assumed a common frontier and that differences in performance among banks are primarily due to disparities in certain country-specific aspects of banking...