According to a frequently cited finding by Berger et al (1993), X-inefficiency contributes 20% to cost-inefficiency in western banks. Empirical studies of Chinese banks tend to place cost-inefficiency in the region of 50%. Such estimates would suggest that Chinese banks suffer from gross cost...

Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency in order to survive. We employ the Simar-Wilson (2007) two-step double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method to measure whether cost efficiency among Jamaican banks has improved...

This paper investigates the effect of intellectual capital (IC) and its components on the efficiency of Vietnamese commercial banks from 2007 to 2019 using the two-step Data Envelopment Analysis approach. Banks' efficiency scores are firstly estimated, while the relationship between IC and bank...