Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

input and output orientation, for measuring efficiency. Further, the Tobit regression model is used in the second stage to … check the significant determinants from a list of bank-specific factors for various efficiencies. The study finds that the … average efficiency scores of public sector banks (PSBs) are higher than private banks. The Z-score indicates that both PSBs …

This study investigates the inter-relationship between audit committee effectiveness, bank efficiency and risk … relation. Our results show that audit committee effectiveness reduces bank risk-taking through increasing bank efficiency. This … literature the relationship between audit committee effectiveness and bank risk-taking by examining the mechanism behind this …

indeed share SMEs' credit risk of lending in order to help raise bank efficiency. …' efficiency, by employing the stochastic frontier approach on 14 banks over the period 2001-2010. When lending increases to SMEs …, the findings indicate that banks' cost efficiency decreases due to information asymmetry. However, the increased …

ownership structure and bank risk-taking behavior is correlated with the characteristics of individual banks in terms of … quantile regression. First, state ownership and foreign ownership affect bank risk-taking positively in high-risk banks while … distributions of bank risk. These findings suggest that appropriate ownership structure can constrain bank risk-taking activities in …