Reforms in the Indian power sector mid 90s led to restructuring of the vertically integrated State Electricity Boards (SEBs). Orissa led the march by unbundling, corporatising and privatization of distribution electric utilities. A number of states have embraced regulatory reforms and unbundling...

The present study has been undertaken to measure the efficiency of the Indian pharmaceutical companies during the period of recent recession. Data envelopment analysis has been utilized in the paper to measure the efficiency. Input oriented variable return to scale approach has been used in this...

This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of their business performance and trends during the period. The extant literature suggests that conventional ratio-based performance measures are inadequate to address the different...

We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production frontier),...

Two alternative estimation models, i.e., a translog cost function and data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost model are compared and contrasted in revealing scale economies in the Indian commercial banking sector. The empirical results indicate that while the translog cost model exhibits...