Banking efficiency in the Nordic countries

Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart; Suominen, Matti

doi:10.1016/0378-4266(93)90038-f

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“…This approach is in line with the existing academic literature on this subject (e.g. Berg et al, 1993;Pastor et al, 1997;Casu and Molyneux, 2000;Grigorian andManole, 2002 or Stavárek, 2006). In table 4 we have presented the descriptive statistics for the efficiency scores obtained in the case of the CRS and VRS models, respectively.…”

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Empirical Evidence Regarding the Effects of European Integration on Banks Efficiency

Camelia¹,

Roman²

2012

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The academic literature suggests that the European integration process enhances the development of the economic environment in the case of the candidate countries. The banking sector represents, especially in the case of the new EU member countries, the backbone of the economy, as it is the main channel through which the economic undertakings are financed. Thus, in this context, the aim of our research is to analyse if the ascension to EU membership and the preparation for the adoption of the European single currency, in the case of Bulgaria and Romania, the two countries that have joined the EU in 2007, have determined an enhancement of the overall estimated efficiency of their banking sectors. In order to achieve this we have employed a non-parametric analysis, namely the Data Envelopment Analysis, using one of the most comprehensive samples of banks for this type of researches. The obtained results suggest that during the analysed period of time 2003-2010, the overall estimated banking efficiency for these countries has registered a slight improvement.

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“…This approach has been used previous in the academic literature being considered appropriate for similar comparative cross-border studies (e.g. Berg et al, 1993;Stavárek, 2006). …”

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Empirical Evidence Regarding the Effects of European Integration on Banks Efficiency

Camelia¹,

Roman²

2012

JESR

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“…The value of assets has been included in financial efficiency models by, for example, Berger and Humphrey (1997), Berg et al (1993), Seiford and Zhu (1999), and Luo (2003). Mixmarket defines assets as the "total of all net assets accounts".…”

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“…The number of employees has been proposed as an input by Berg et al (1993), Athanassoupoulos (1997), Berger and Humphrey (1997), Sherman and Gold (1985), Seiford and Zhu (1999), and Luo (2003) …”

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Social efficiency in microfinance institutions

Nieto

Serrano‐Cinca

Molinero

2009

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are a special case in the financial world. They have a double financial and social role and need to be efficient at both. In this paper we try to measure the efficiency of MFIs in relation to financial and social outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis. For the analysis of financial efficiency we rely on existing literature for traditional financial institutions. To this we have added two indicators of social performance: impact on women, and a poverty reach index. A series of hypotheses on MFIs have been entertained, that concern the relationship between social and financial efficiency, and the relationship between efficiency and other indicators, such as profitability. Other aspects studied are the relation between social efficiency and type of institution -Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), non-NGO-, and the importance of geographical region of activity. The results reveal the importance of social efficiency assessment. JEL Classification: G290

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“…Examples of this type of application can be found in Berg et al (1993) and Pastor et al (1997) in the context of comparisons between banks from different countries. The banks were first assessed in relation to their own country frontier and then the frontiers from different countries were compared using a Malmquist index.…”

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Performance comparison of retailing stores using a Malmquist-type index

Vaz

Camanho

2012

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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This study develops a framework that combines different management science methods to provide insights concerning the performance of retailing stores. First, the framework enables to specify appropriate targets for stores of a retail network using data envelopment analysis. This involves comparing stores within homogenous groups, that is, supermarkets and hypermarkets. Second, the framework compares the overall performance of these two groups. This requires the combined use of a Malmquist-type index and statistical tests. This index is decomposed into sub-indices for comparing the differences between groups in terms of the efficiency spread in each group of stores and the productivity differences between the best-practice frontiers spanned by the benchmark stores from each group. The hypothesis tests are used to verify if the differences between groups captured by the sub-indices are statistically significant.

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Banking efficiency in the Nordic countries

Cited by 300 publications

References 14 publications

Empirical Evidence Regarding the Effects of European Integration on Banks Efficiency

Empirical Evidence Regarding the Effects of European Integration on Banks Efficiency

Social efficiency in microfinance institutions

Performance comparison of retailing stores using a Malmquist-type index

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