The purpose of this paper is to analyze comparative efficiency of banking system in Pakistan comprising of Islamic banks (IB), conventional banks with Islamic banking division (IBD) and conventional banks (CB). For this purpose we use two methods: First, ratio analysis to analyze cost, revenue and profit efficiency; Second, data envelopment analysis (DEA), for comparative analysis of banks’ tec...

this study examines technical efficiency in iran's banking system using unbalanced panel data for 17 state and private banks during the 1997-2009 period. therefore, technical efficiency of banks was measured through estimating a translog cost function in the form of a panel sfa error compound model. then, the effect of underlying factors including both individual and structural (ownership/...

economic growth is the most important purpose of developing countries. each country can improve social welfare and access to international markets by increasing production potential. production can increase by two ways: the first one, using more inputs that raising production cost and the second one, improving efficiency that can produce more output with certain inputs or the same output with l...

Achieving allocative and technically efficient spectrum management is a key aspect of deregulatory reforms in several OECD countries. However, reform legislation offers few clues as to how these objectives should rank when they conflict with one another. An `innocent' prior acquisition of service-neutral spectrum at an efficiently run auction may prove allocative efficient but fail to be techni...

This paper aims to provide a consistent empirical methodology for investigating the level of Minimum Efficient Scale (MES) in a single product industry, through the assessment of the relative productive performance of French soft cheese firms. Two deterministic approaches are used to evaluate firm-level technical efficiency: a parametric method, Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS); and a no...

Standard economic production theory is the basis for measuring technical efficiency in sports. Using programming or regression models, efficiency is defined as the distance of a given team observation from the technology. In this paper, we show that the standard measures of efficiency using deterministic models are biased downward due to serial correlation with respect to the efficiency measure...