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Performance of Indian commercial banks (1995-2002): an application of data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity index

Galagedera, Don U.A.; Edirisuriya, Piyadasa - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and productivity growth using Malmquist index … and loans and other earning assets as output in the DEA analysis we observe no significant growth in productivity during … compared to managerial efficiency. In general, smaller banks are less efficient and highly DEA-efficient banks have a high …

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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

1966-2000. We also decompose labor productivity growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the … the European countries it is the technical changes which has contributed to labour productivity changes between 1966 … primarily responsible for the existence of bimodal labour productivity distribution for countries included in our sample …

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Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

We work out the efficiency index of the Delhi Airport using monthly data(March 2000 through July 2004) of international and total traffic of aircraft's, passengers & cargo movements . The study compares the Delhi Airport technical efficiency index with the efficiency indexes of some selected...

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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005

productivity change is of 11.66%. The overall averages provide evidence of productivity improvements of 173.29 over 1980-81(base ….20 while the contribution of capital deepening is 42.52% TO ACCOUNT for 173.20% overall PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE(not point to point … below for the growth accounting exercise which can totally account for point to point and overall productivity changes from …

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Biased Technical Change and the Malmquist Productivity Index

Fare, R.; Grifell-Tatje, E.; Grosskopf, S.; Lovell, C.A.K. - EconWPA - 1995

The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …

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Effect of Teaching on Hospital Productivity

Grosskopf, S.; Margaritis, D.; Valdmanis, V. - EconWPA - 1997

evaluate relative productivity, a reference technology of 'best practice frontier' will be derived from all the observations in …

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A Scoring Model of the Risk of Costly Arrears at a Microfinance Lender in Bolivia

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Can scoring models help microfinance lenders in poor countries as much as they have helped credit-card lenders in rich countries? I model the probability that loans from a microlender in Bolivia had arrears of 15 days or more. Although arrears in microfinance depend on many factors difficult to...

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Scoring Drop-Out at a Microlender in Bolivia

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents a scoring model that predicts the risk of drop-out for borrowers at a microfinance lender in Bolivia. Drop-out risk was greater for women, manufacturers, newer borrowers, and those with more arrears. Out-of-sample tests suggest that scoring may help microfinance lenders to...

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Collateral, Access to Credit, and Investment in Bulgaria, chap. 8 in D. Jones and J. Miller (eds) THE BULGARIAN ECONOMY: LESSONS FROM REFORM DURING EARLY TRANSITION, Ashgate 97.

Bogetic, Zeljko - EconWPA - 2005

The paper measures economic loss from the problem of inadequate collateral in Bulgaria and proposes solutions consisting of creation of security interests, perfection, and enforcement.

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On the Anatomy of Productivity Growth: A Decomposition of the Fisher Ideal TFP Index

Kuosmanen, Timo; Sipiläinen, Timo - EconWPA - 2004

Decompositions of productivity indices contribute to our understanding of what drives the observed productivity changes … factor productivity (TFP) to date. Starting from the Fisher ideal TFP index, we systematically isolate the productivity …

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