Efficiency studies relating to the Indian life insurance companies have so far used static one-period data envelopment analysis (DEA) models for the purpose of comparison of performance. A major weakness of the static framework is that the efficiency results are not inter-temporally comparable....

The paper discusses in brief the implications Basel II regarding assessment of credit risk in the commercial banking sector under both the standardized approach and the foundation and advanced Internal Rating Based Approach. The paper also provides a brief review of some of the popular credit...