Liu, Yi-cheng; Chen, Ying-hsiu - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 131-150
The purpose of this paper is to employ the Meta-Frontier Cost Function to compare the bank efficiencies in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand during the period of 2002-2009. We propose two new variables: income on loans and non-performing loans, to identify whether the banks are both cost and...