In a highly competitive environment, operational efficiency is an important factor for the survival of any organisation and banks are no exception. A comparative assessment of Cost Income Ratio (CIR) shows that the behaviour of CIR and its relationships with other vital financial parameters of...

This paper considers a model that accommodates both output and input-specific inefficiency components (inputslacks). We use a translog function to represent the underlying production technology in which the input slacksare generalized to have both deterministic (functions of exogenous variables)...