Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … evaluation of banks, i.e., the measurement of the productivity and research results of previous authors’ studies of the European …

This article first reviews the well-known nonparametric methods of decomposing productivity growth and finally argue … that Färe et al. (1994)’s method of computing productivity growth is superior in spite of the fact that this model model is … sample of 60 steel units in India over the period 1989-1996 to decompose the productivity growth into its various components …

This paper explore the role of institutions to enhance the productivity growth across countries using a two stage … Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The productivity growth is calculated on the basis of Malmquist … productivity index. It also explores the sources of productivity growth and the influence of different types of institutions …