This paper presents an efficiency assessment of 114 Islamic banks from 24 countries using the “Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution” (TOPSIS). TOPSIS is a multicriteria decision making technique similar to Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which ranks a finite...

This paper analyses technical efficiency of European banks over the period 1996-2003 with unbalanced panel data techniques. A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically...