The greater competition and concentration in South Africa's financial sector has put South African banks under more constraints and led to questioning of their present performance. With a greater demand for financial services and more complains about the low quality of financial services and...

The banking industry from all over the world has been the object of DEA and SFA analysis by a significant number of researchers. Various type of DEA and SFA models have been applied in performance assessing problems and the banks production processes have further motivated the improvement of...

This paper investigates the dynamics between the financial freedom counterparts of the economic freedom index drawn from the Heritage Foundation database and bank efficiency levels. We rely on a large sample of commercial banks operating in the 27 European Union member states over the 2000s....

Purpose – Since there is no agreement on the consistency of their estimates, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) generate consistent bank efficiency assessments....

Purpose – Since there is no agreement on the consistency of their estimates, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) generate consistent bank efficiency assessments....

The banking industry from all over the world has been the object of DEA and SFA analysis by a significant number of researchers. Various type of DEA and SFA models have been applied in performance assessing problems and the banks production processes have further motivated the improvement of...

We propose a bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-based procedure to pre-calculate and pre-evaluate the short-run operating efficiency gains of a potential bank merger or acquisition (M&A). As an illustrative example, we apply our proposed procedure to investigate the degree of operating...