Banking sector has undergone several major transformations during the past few years. Numerous reformations, liberalizations, progressions in technology etc. has made the sector exclusively lucrative. This paper tries to assess the impact of these revolutions on the sector. Efficiency serves as...

This paper estimates and compares various efficiencies, namely, business, profit, and Z-Score efficiencies for private and publicly owned Indian banks. It uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) following variable returns to scale, under input and output orientation, for measuring efficiency....

The Indian judicial system is extensive and plagued by several issues, especially high pendency levels across all levels. The present work has two goals. Firstly, it aims to measure the efficiency of Indian high courts using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Secondly, it studies the impact of...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based cost norms have attractive properties in the regulation of natural monopolies. However, they are also sensitive to the choice of cost drivers. When some of the cost drivers are discretionary, this may lead to suboptimal incentives. When a regulated firm...

We analyzed the efficiency of the insurance industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the period from 2015 to 2019 in order to identify good and bad practices, sources of inefficiency and to propose guidelines for the necessary efficiency improvements based on the results. Efficiency...

This paper by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and statistical inference evaluates the citation performance of 229 economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The results are then compared to the 27 "core...

Since the introduction of bootstrap DEA there is a growing literature on applications which use this method, mainly for hypothesis testing. It is therefore important to establish the consistency and evaluate the performance of bootstrap DEA. The few Monte Carlo experiments in the literature...