this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...

This study examines all bank robberies, completed and attempted, reported to the U.K.'s Metropolitan Police in the years 19921994. It shows the rate of repetition against the same branches to be high, with each robbed branch suffering an average of 1.54 robberies, and the most robbed branch suffering six. Repeat robberies follow the success of earlier robberies, with the probability of repetiti...

Dynamic network data envelopment analysis (DNDEA) has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. On one hand the available models in DNDEA evaluating the performance of a DMU with interrelated processes during specified multiple periods but on the other hand they can only measure the efficiency of dynamic network structure when a supply chain structure present. For example, in the banking in...

How do banks react to increased interbank competition? Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the impact of interbank competition on bank orientation i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking and bank industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank orientation and specialization. We employ a data set c...

During financial crises, which suppress the profitability of banks, it is a common practice for management to aim to minimize inefficiencies in bank operations. This paper reports on an assessment of the efficiency in operations of homogenous branches of a large Greek bank, before and during the crisis, in two different areas: their efficiency in managing the economic record of the branches and...

This research examines the e¤ects of relaxing credit constraints on households’ saving and credit choices. I focus in the opening of a new bank in Mexico that targeted workers of the informal sector that were previously denied access to bank credit. I …rst explore the di¤erence-indi¤erence e¤ects of the appearance of this bank. Important changes are found in households from municipalities with ...

This paper is drawn from the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in helping a Portuguese bank to manage the performance of its branches. The bank wanted to set targets for the branches on such variables as growth in number of clients, growth in funds deposited and so on. Such variables can take positive and negative values but apart from some exceptions, traditional DEA models have hitherto ...

This paper proposes a new approach for gauging the performance of branch managers of a financial institution by defining a Measure of Internal Performance (MIP). Our proposal is different from others existing in the literature in two main aspects. Firstly, it is consistent with the requirements of internal evaluation because it uses the managers’ real preferences instead of assuming them. Secon...