The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and its factors for Indian bank groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity in the bank sizes, we perform DEA to estimate PE for small, medium, and large banks across different ownership....

This paper examines the factors that affect profit efficiency of banks in Vietnam over the period from 2000 to 2006. The effects of four groups of variables, including bank-specific characteristics, ownership, transitional environment and macroeconomic conditions on the profitability of banks,...