This study analyses the efficiency of banks under board gender diversity and examines the determinants of bank … efficiency. Using a two-step framework, the first stage result shows that banks experience about 7.9 per cent improvement in … their efficiency with board gender diversity on average. The second stage regression results reveal that gender diversity …

The stochastic frontier analysis is employed to investigate efficiency of publicly listed Australian banks over the … period 1985-2008. The results suggest that technical, cost and profit efficiency of Australian banks have improved over our … sample span. Large banks have attained a higher level of cost efficiency but lower level of technical efficiency compared to …

This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of …. Sophisticated performance measurement techniques would be required to provide useful insights about the effectiveness, efficiency …-parametric, mathematical programming technique, to estimate profit efficiency (PE) of 66 Indian banks (26 public, 19 private and 21 foreign …

We show that financial constraints may benefit innovation by improving the efficiency of innovative activities. We … measure firm-level innovative efficiency by patents (or patent citations) scaled by R&D (research and development) investment … or the number of employees, and find that financial constraints are positively associated with innovative efficiency …

The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and … in efficiency, followed by foreign banks while the efficiency of Public sector banks was highest in 2008 showed …, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index(HHI), and ownership structure are significant determinants of bank efficiency. The study contributes …

efficiency of individual banks, are also of great importance to profitability (proxied by ROA and ROE ratios) of banking sectors …. Our results suggest that banking sector specific determinants affect the efficiency of banks in anticipated way …. Macroeconomic variables have statistically significant impact on both ROA and ROE. The sensitivity of efficiency to both groups of …