The purpose of this paper is to derive the efficiency measures and the rate of technological change for a sample of large U.S. commercial banks by employing a nonparametric technique. This technique is used to construct a multiproduct production frontier relative to which the efficiency...

This paper examines the relative cost efficiency of U.S. small banks after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (2008 GFC). Using financial information from 10,495 of the same small banks operating from 2010 to 2021, we examine the after-effects of the recent global financial crises on the U.S....

Two alternative approaches of efficiency measurement, nonparametric and statistical, are employed to calculate three types of efficiency indexes for the U.S. beer industry over the period 1950-1986. The results indicate that the beer industry was operating at a high level of pure technical...