Though remarkable literature exploring productivity and efficiency has emerged since the
last half of the previous century, but dearth studies have been found in showing the impact of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to discuss a comprehensive literature survey of
studies focusing on the efficiency and productivity of the banking sector using parametric …

Measuring and improving the efficiency of the Chinese commercial banking system has
recently attracted increasing interest. Few studies, however, have adopted the two-stage …

Operational processes of banks in China can be divided into productivity and profitability
stages. Within this, non-performing loans can be treated as a carry-over variable, an …

According to recent figures from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), since 2006, commercial
banks' non-performing loans (NPLs) have significantly risen. To this end, the primary …

The paper examines Chinese bank efficiency with a unique sample of 127 banks during the
peak period of the global financial crisis. We apply an innovative Data Envelopment …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by
computing Lerner indices and cost efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the …

This study investigates the sources of bank productivity growth in China over the period
2002–2009. In order to perform this research, we propose an advanced index–input slack …

DEA-type efficiency studies are often used to investigate levels of efficiencies, differences in
those levels between subgroups within a data set and possible determinants of such …

We explore the effect of balancing unbalanced panel data when estimating primal
productivity indices using non-parametric frontier estimators. First, we list a series of pseudo …