Asian financial crisis and the evolution of Korean banks efficiency: A DEA approach

Global Economic Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-369

  Sufian, Fadzlan ^a   Habibullah, Muzafar Shah ^b  

^a PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bank efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Financial crisis; Korea; Panel regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958015280     PISSN: 1226508X     EISSN: 17443873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12265080903391735     Document Type: Article

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