This study explains the differences and variances in the efficiency scores of the Vietnamese banking sector retrieved … mainly based on frontier efficiency measurements, which essentially are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic … efficiency, whilst the opposite is true for the data type, and sample size. …

Almost Ideal Demand System. In addition, we suggest a more general way of measuring efficiency that can incorporate a concern …

Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at … the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive risk-taking. Both the quantitative effects and dynamic reactions …

Most previous research on efficiency in banking takes a regulatory perspective. In contrast, this paper investigates … the empirical relation between efficiency and profitability in five large economies of the European Union during the … period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing …

scaling effect is neglected in the cost efficiency measurement. The implied bank ranking is robust to changes in the …This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the … efficiency score and the efficiency ranking to a change in the design of the frontier. We found that the average scores are …

, a minimum ratio that represents best-practice lending given the volume and composition of a bank's loans, the average … concentration; and, second, a ratio, the difference between the bank's observed ratio of nonperforming loans and the best …-practice minimum ratio, that represents the bank's proficiency at loan making. The best-practice ratio of nonperforming loans, the …

: first, a minimum ratio that represents best-practice lending given the volume and composition of a bank's loans, the average … concentration; second, a ratio, the difference between the bank's observed ratio of nonperforming loans, adjusted for statistical … noise, and the best-practice minimum ratio, that represents the bank's proficiency at loan making; third, a statistical …