The paper analyzes bank performance in the context of the integrated European Union market and its member countries. First, the paper investigates the technical efficiency of banks in each country sample using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model incorporating only banking variables. Then, a...

Previous work suggests that the charter value hypothesis is theoretically grounded and empirically supported, but not universally. Accordingly, this paper aims to perform an analysis of the relations among charter value, risk taking, and supervision that take into account the relations'...

In for-profit organizations, profit efficiency decomposition is considered important since estimates on profit drivers are of practical use to managers in their decision making. Profit efficiency is traditionally due to two sources - technical efficiency and allocative efficiency. The...

This paper proposes a new method to measure economic inefficiency of decision making units based on the calculation of the least distance to the Pareto-efficient frontier in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). While all previously published approaches that have dealt with the problem of determining...

This paper proposes two new Luenberger-type indicators, one for measuring productivity change of decision making units in the full input-output space, and the other one for determining profit inefficiency change over time when information on market prices is also available. Both approaches are...

In this paper we describe a Shiny interactive Web application (RStudio, Inc, 2014) by RStudio (RStudio Team, 2012) which is used to estimate technical efficiency through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a technique widely used by engineers and operation research practitioners. The Shiny...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual background: firms’ objectives, decision variables and economic efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF):...