analyse the evolution of the average rank cost efficiency for Latin American banks between 1985 and 2010. Cost efficiency …This paper contributes to the bank efficiency literature through an application of recently developed random parameters … deteriorated during the 1990s, particularly for state-owned banks, before improving during the 2000s but prior to the subprime …

The article deals with problems related to the stochastic frontier model of bank efficiency measurement. The model is … used to study the efficiency of the banking sector of The Russian Federation. It is based on the stochastic approach both … to the efficiency frontier location and to individual bank efficiency values. The model allows estimating bank efficiency …

Based on an unbalanced panel of all Bavarian cooperative banks for the years of 1989-97 which includes information on … function with a time-variable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … hypothetical mergers, size effects of observed mergers turn out to be slightly more favorable than for all possible mergers. Banks …

analyse the evolution of the average rank cost efficiency for Latin American banks between 1985 and 2010. Cost efficiency …This paper contributes to the bank efficiency literature through an application of recently developed random parameters … deteriorated during the 1990s, particularly for state-owned banks, before improving during the 2000s but prior to the sub …

By using stochastic frontier analysis, this article examines the technical efficiency of different types of … microfinance institutions in Latin America. In particular, it tests whether differences in technical efficiency, both intra- and … unions, non-bank financial intermediaries, and banks, the data set contains 1681 observations from a panel of 315 …

We examine the relationship between banks' types of ownership and banks' efficiency using Greene's "true" panel data … stochastic frontier model. We find that, even after taking unobserved heterogeneity more properly into account, state-owned banks … in Indonesia are the least efficient banks and joint-venture banks are the most efficient ones. …

Measuring productive efficiency is an important research strand within fields of economics, management science and … operations research. One definition of efficiency is the proportional scaling needed for observations of an inefficient unit to … weighted inputs. When linear programming is used to estimate efficiency the two definitions give identical results due to the …

Measuring productive efficiency is an important research strand within fields of economics, management science and … operations research. One definition of efficiency is the proportional scaling needed for observations of an inefficient unit to … weighted inputs. When linear programming is used to estimate efficiency the two definitions give identical results due to the …