index approach which is based on the directional distance function. Our findings indicate that the average bank operates …In this paper, we measure and analyse profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks using a newly developed … quite far below the frontier of the best-practice bank, mainly due to allocative inefficiency rather than technical …

in productivity and efficiency of Spanish private and savings banks over an eight-year period (1998-2006). Second, by … adapting the decomposition of the Malmquist productivity indices suggested by Färe et al. (1994), it proposes similar … components decomposing the Luenberger productivity indicator. Initially, productivity is decomposed into technological and …