World financial crisis and the rise of Chinese commercial banks: An efficiency analysis using DEA

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1515-1530

  Luo, Dan ^a   Yao, Shujie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; STOCK MARKET;

CHINA;

EID: 77957094456     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603107.2010.508717     Document Type: Article

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