In this paper we investigate the impact which starting values have upon the double differencing tests of Hasza and Fuller (1979, An. Stats.) and Sen and Dickey (1987, Jn.Bus.Ec.Stats.). We demonstrate that when bases on data which has been de-meaned, these tests are not exact similar to the...

In this note we provide justification for some Monte Carlo results presented by Elder and Kennedy (2001). In particular we show that the severe size distortions observed by Elder and Kennedy are due to the presence of nuisance parameters in the data generation process, but ignored in the test...

<title>Abstract</title>The intangibility of banking services makes the evaluation of service quality and customer convenience difficult to measure. This paper aims to construct an integrated evaluation system for retail banking service quality and convenience at the bank branch level by combining cognitive...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> Remarkable progress has occurred over the years in the performance evaluation of bank branches. Even though financial measures are usually considered the most important in assessing branch viability, we posit that insufficient attention has been given to other factors that affect the...