This paper surveys 130 studies that apply frontier efficiency analysis to financial institutions
in 21 countries. The primary goals are to summarize and critically review empirical estimates …

The efficiency of financial institutions: Page 1 Journal of Banking and Finance 17 (1993) 221-249.
North-Holland The efficiency of financial institutions: A review and preview of research past …

The literature of data envelopment analysis (DEA) encompasses many surveys, yet all either
emphasize methodologies or do not make a distinction between methodological and …

This study measures and analyzes inefficiencies for all US banks in 1984. Inefficiencies are
measured relative to a 'thick frontier'cost function and are found to dominate measured scale …

Productivity growth during the deregulation of the Norwegian banking industry is studied
within the framework of Data Envelopment Analysis, which explicitly allows for multiple …

This paper develops a consistent bootstrap estimation procedure for obtaining confidence
intervals for Malmquist indices of productivity and their decompositions. Although the …

Significant difficulties in commercial banking in the late 1980s raise questions about bank
performance and efficiency. With the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA), we consider …

In this paper, we estimate a global cost function for international banks to test for both input
and output inefficiencies. Our results for 1988–1992 suggest that for banks in 15 countries …

Studies of efficiency in banking and elsewhere often impose arbitrary assumptions on the
distributions of efficiency and random error in order to separate one from the other. In this …

An understanding of a bank's relative performance compared to the market over a period of
time is important for analysts, practitioners and policymakers alike. In this paper we analyze …