Are some Indian banks too large? An examination of size efficiency in Indian banking

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-56

  Ray, Subhash C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Most productive scale size; Scale efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846942660     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-006-0022-6     Document Type: Article

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