Propriété étrangère et efficience technique des banques dans les pays en transition. Une analyse par la méthode dea

With the increasing domination of foreign capital in banking sectors of transition countries, it is of the highest interest to investigate the relative performance of domestic-owned and foreign-owned banks in these countries. We therefore aim here to compare the technical efficiency of domestic-owned and foreign-owned banks in Poland and the Czech Republic. The efficiency scores are estimated with the Data Envelopment Analysis (dea). We find that foreign-owned banks are more technically efficient than domestic-owned banks. We furthermore conclude that this advantage in efficiency is not the result of differences in size or activities. Classification JEL : C30, G21, P20