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 …

Reviews previous research on the efficiency and performance of financial institutions and
uses Siems and Barr's (1998) data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate the …

We propose a set of consistency conditions which frontier efficiency measures should meet
to be most useful for regulatory analysis or other purposes. The efficiency estimates should …

By employing a stochastic frontier approach, we examine the effect of bank size, corporate
control, and governance, as well as ownership, on the cost (input) and alternative profit …

Turkish banks are quite heterogeneous in terms of organizational form, ownership structure,
size, age, portfolio concentration, growth prospects and attitude toward risk. They also …

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the productive efficiency of foreign-owned
and US-owned multinational commercial banks operating in the US. A multiproduct translog …

This paper develops a non-parametric approach for rnerrsuring the relative operating
efSiciency of 34 comnzerciccl banks in Taiwan. As initial estimates indicate cc lower level of …

From an agency theory perspective, recent conversion activity of savings and loan
associations (S&Ls) from mutual to stock organizations should improve the overall …

In the fast changing financial circumstances of nowadays, in avoiding the crisis of closing
down, financial institutions are concerned about the efficiency and risk strictly in the …

This study adopts a three-stage approach to estimate bank efficiency based on information
obtained from 29 banks in Taiwan for the period from 2002 to 2004. In the first stage we …