variables in disaggregating branch expenses and income for evaluating the overall technical efficiency of bank branches by means …, efficiency and size relationship and returns to scale patterns. Moreover, it explores target setting strategies for inefficient … branches. Findings – Results indicate that branch size has an important influence on efficiency and that superior insights can …

spread over the other industries, creating a domino effect. The purpose of this paper is to examine the market efficiency of … efficient at the profitability stage than at other stages. However, the 2001 financial crisis eroded profitability efficiency … paper extends the three-stage market value efficiency process outlined in Zhu (2000) by adding production stage. It proposes …

A balanced panel data set covering 519 U.S. agricultural banks is constructed for the period 1996S2005. Cost efficiency … various bank specific characteristics to explain the cost efficiency differences of agricultural banks. The results indicate … measure, (b) older agricultural banks tend to be more efficient, (c) regulation may deteriorate efficiency levels, (d) bigger …

data envelopment analysis. This methodology has been implemented in different studies that evaluate the efficiency in … average pure technical efficiency of 24% for 2007 and 19.6% in 2008, in the four models analyzed, of which it is concluded …