Relative profitability and stock market performance of listed commercial banks on the Athens Exchange: A non-parametric approach

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 323-342

  Tsolas, Ioannis E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

commercial banks; data envelopment analysis; Greece; profitability efficiency; stock market performance

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; FINANCE; PROFITABILITY;

COMMERCIAL BANK; COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS; DATA ENVELOPMENT; EFFICIENCY LEVELS; GREECE; MARKET VALUES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; OUTPUT VARIABLES; REAL PROBLEMS; SIZE SCALE; STOCK MARKET; STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE; TWO-DIMENSION; TWO-STEP PROCEDURE;

COMMERCE;

EID: 80052987445     PISSN: 1471678X     EISSN: 14716798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imaman/dpq017     Document Type: Article

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