Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the cost efficiency of 58 branches of a major Greek commercial bank, in six major Greek cities, for the years 2000 and 2001. Design/methodology/approach – The efficiency is measured through the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. Using...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the operating efficiency of a set of 171 retail orientation bank branches of a large commercial bank in Greece, offering relatively homogenous products in a multimarket business environment. Design/methodology/approach – For the measurement...

This book is devoted to the 19th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling. Its basic aim is to present some new operational approaches (i.e. neural nets, multicriteria analysis, new optimization algorithms, decision software, etc.) for financial modelling, both in a theoretical...