An Innovative Method to Measure the Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks - DEA Approach

This study proposes a three stage data envelopment analysis model to assess the efficiency of Indian commercial banks. 65 commercial banks comprising public, private and foreign sector banks were evaluated. This study proposed a new methodology to evaluate the efficiency of banks. The performance indicator variable NPA has been used to identify the environment of a bank. The overall technical efficiency is decomposed to scale, environmental risk and pure technical efficiency. The empirical results reveal that public sector banks hurt more from environmental risk inefficiency