Cost and profit efficiency of Chinese banks: A non-parametric analysis

China Economic Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 260-273

  ARIFF, Mohamed ^a,b   CAN, Luc ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese banks; Cost efficiency; Non parametric techniques; Profit efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649121330     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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