A survey on bank branch efficiency and performance research with data envelopment analysis

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-79

  Paradi, Joseph C ^a   Zhu, Haiyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banking; Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866048114     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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