Managerial Finance: Volume 28 Issue 9

A comparative study of the cost efficiency of Italian bank conglomerates

Barbara Casu, Claudia Girardone

Outlines previous research on the efficiency of the Italian banking system, describes the structure of Italian banking groups and uses parametric (stochastic cost frontier) and…

An insight into the size efficiency of a UK bank branch network

Leigh Drake, Barry Howcroft

Outlines previous research on the efficiency of financial institutions and builds on an earlier study of the relative efficiency of 190 UK bank branches by the authors to…

Interpretation of modelling results in data envelopment analysis

Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Oleg B. Utkin, Andrei V. Volodin, Ilia A. Sablin

Refers to various types of data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature and puts forward a technique aimed at helping managers to visualize the results of DEA modelling without loss…

Measuring productivity changes in Australian banking: an application of Malmquist indices

Milind Sathye

Gives an overview of the Australian banking industry, reviews relevant research and analyses productivity changes 1995‐1999 in a panel of 17 banks to assess the effects of…

Australian mutual fund performance appraisal using data envelopment analysis

Don U.A. Galagedera, Param Silvapulle

Outlines previous research on measuring the performance of investment funds, suggesting that data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques can overcome some of the problems of the…