There was a paradigm shift in the competition scenario of the Indian commercial banking sector as a consequence of the initiation of banking sector reforms and opening up of the banking sector to the foreign participants in a gradual fashion. The present paper benchmarks the performance of...

In the last two decades, numerous studies have used parametric and non-parametric techniques to estimate commercial bank productivity and efficiency in the Indian context. However, none of them has considered undesirable outputs in their analytical framework. The present paper makes an attempt...