Reviews previous research on the efficiency and performance of financial institutions and uses Siems and Barr’s (1998 …) data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate the relative productive efficiency of US commercial banks 1984 …‐1998. Explains the methodology, discusses the input and output measures used and relates bank performance measures to efficiency …

Outlines previous research on the efficiency of the Italian banking system, describes the structure of Italian banking … efficiency of Italian bank conglomerates in 1995 compared with the parent companies and subsidiearies. Explains the methodology … efficiency is not related to size. Analyses efficiencies of scale and scope to show that bank groups gain more economies of scope …

Outlines previous research on the efficiency of financial institutions and builds on an earlier study of the relative … efficiency of 190 UK bank branches by the authors to determine their size efficiency relationship and their determinants of … summarizes the results of the previous study. Shows that size is related to efficiency and suggests that the pattern is an …

application of the methodology developed in Trimbath, Frydman and Frydman (2001). In order to illustrate efficiency enhancements … that their aggressive programs of cost management substantially improved the efficiency of General Instrument. Moreover, it …

of structural change to several efficiency tests, suggest that the Greek equity market was weak‐form efficient before …

The existence of weak‐form efficiency in the equity markets of the three main Central European transition economies … constitutes evidence for weakform efficiency. This differs in some cases from studies using data for the initial years of these …

This article investigates concentration, efficiency, and profitability of commercial banks operating in Saudi Arabia … concentration, efficiency, and profitability. The significance of the study stems from the conventional premise that highly …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of individual branches of a large Greek bank through … conceptual (parametric functional form‐loglinear) models: one focusing on transaction and one on production efficiency. The DEA … assessment using the transaction efficiency model is performed under the specifications of constant or variable returns to scale …