A three-component measure of output is more responsive to complex production-cost relationships in multi-plant firms producing several nonhomogeneous products than the customary single measure of output. The parameters of these three components in the statistical cost function indicate the...

This monograph provides information about the effects of bank size and legal structure on the efficiency of producing various banking services and functions in one state. This information should benefit regulators and bankers alike in their efforts to obtain a competitive and efficient banking...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to analyze the input/output efficiency of large U.S. banks in 1987 and 1992. The former was the year that banks belatedly began to acknowledge financially the increasingly severe problems from loans to less-developed countries, especially in Latin...

A three-component measure of output is more responsive to complex production-cost relationships in multi-plant firms producing several nonhomogeneous products than the customary single measure of output. The parameters of these three components in the statistical cost function indicate the...