Within the banking efficiency analysis literature there is a dearth of studies which have considered how banks have ‘survived’ the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Considering the profound changes that have occurred in the region’s financial systems since then, such an analysis is...

This paper performs comparative analysis of the non-radial Russell output technical efficiency measures of 13 Eastern European banking systems assuming a banking production with risk as an undesirable output and where output components can be negative. This is analysed utilizing three modelling...

In one of the first stand-alone studies covering the whole of the Indonesian banking industry, and utilising a unique dataset provided by the Indonesian central bank, this paper analyses the levels of intermediation-based efficiency obtaining during 2007. Using Tone’s (2001) input-oriented,...