The paper compares 38 Indian commercial banks in terms of their fee-based activities and off balance sheet exposures using the assurance region model (a non-radial approach to data envelopment analysis). This approach avoids the problem of slacks by imposing restrictions on the shadow prices of...

This paper makes a comparative assessment of the public and private sector bank intermediation cost efficiency during the reform period. The years covered in the study are 1996-97 , 1998-99, 2000-01, 2002-03. The study concentrates on twenty public and ten Indian private sector banks. This paper...

This paper makes a comparative assessment of public and private sector bank intermediation cost efficiency during the reform period, taking spread or net interest margin as the output indicator. The years covered in the study are 1996-97, 1998-99, 2000-01 and 2002-03. The study concentrates on...

Application of static Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on the time series data relating to a set of decision-making units fails to capture important interactions from period to period. Window analysis is a model structure which provides a more robust treatment to the movement in efficiency over...