This paper reviews the different ways to measure bank efficiency and highlight the results of research on bank efficiency in Asian emerging economies. In particular it will outline the extent of research thus far conducted on the efficiency of banks in Pakistan and comment on how to build and...

Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency in order to survive. We employ the Simar-Wilson (2007) two-step double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method to measure whether cost efficiency among Jamaican banks has improved...

The English and Welsh water and sewerage industry is characterised by indivisible capital which has a long service life. Previous studies of efficiency of the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry take a static framework, assuming all inputs can be adjusted instantaneously. This paper...