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Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance

Modeling Considerations and Approaches

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Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 71))

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The Banking industry has been the object of DEA analyses by a significant number of researchers and probably is the most heavily studied of all business sectors. The Financial Services Industry is a great subject because both the need by management is there (due to competition) and the data is available in great detail affording the analyst much scope for study. Moreover, there are interestign challenges presented because there are many influences on this industry that must be accounted for in the models. Many new theoretical innovations in DEA were spawned by the need that arose because of the unusual situation at hand.

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  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

    Zijiang Yang

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Paradi, J.C., Vela, S., Yang, Z. (2004). Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance. In: Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.M., Zhu, J. (eds) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 71. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7798-X_13

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