Purpose – This paper aims to estimate the cost efficiency scores of banks in KSA before and during financial crisis by … efficiency DEA and a second stage Tobit regression model. Findings – The results reveal that banks in KSA are least affected by … the crisis as the efficiency scores remain the same during all the periods. However, the average levels of inefficiency …

analyse the technical efficiency of insurances in the GCC countries using DEA methodology and Malmquist Productivity Index … (MPI) to decompose the change in the efficiency into an intrinsic component reflecting the individual change in technical … efficiency and a second component reflecting the impact of the change in the market technology on the individual technical …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine managerial efficiency of the whole population of petrochemical firms in … efficiency in context of various returns-to-scales. To glean further insights into the sources of inefficiency, the study … advantage of economies of scale. Originality/value This paper is a first attempt to measure efficiency of petrochemical sector …

reduction. Practical implications – The empirical results are useful in assessing the relative efficiency of the large Indian … efficiency. Originality/value – Unlike the previous studies on the efficiency of the ID&P industry, the paper have shown the … efficiency scores is also checked.  …

The present research provides a critical review of the housing industry efficiency and its future in Iran. Data … technically efficient and the average efficiency score obtained by all states is 0.90. Most of the technically efficient states …

This paper examines the impact of the various types of foreign capital flows (or FCF) on the efficiency with which … returns to scale as the main factor preventing some countries from achieving the total efficiency level assumed by standard …

efficiency levels for these firms. The current paper measures the productive efficiency levels of real estate brokerage firms by … efficiency levels for a set of franchised and non‐franchised firms gathered by the National Association of Realtors. The results …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure efficiency of superannuation funds using data envelopment analysis (DEA … inefficient relative to the benchmark efficiency frontier based on efficient funds. The findings emphasise the importance of … improving the efficiency of Australian superannuation funds by reducing overall fund expenses to narrow the gap in performance …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the difference (or lack of difference) in the efficiency level of … efficiency levels of banks in both sectors. Findings – It is found that there is no significant difference in the level of … efficiency between Islamic banks and conventional banks. Research limitations/implications – The period of study is only three …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the efficiency of Islamic vs conventional banks in Malaysia by unveiling the … traditional efficiency concept – black box – with a three-stage network structure of bank operations. Design …/methodology/approach This paper applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) for examining bank efficiency. An adaptive three-step network DEA (NDEA …