Assessing bank and bank branch performance modeling considerations and approaches

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 164, Issue , 2011, Pages 315-361

  Paradi, Joseph C ^a   Yang, Zijiang ^b   Zhu, Haiyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Banking performance; DEA models; Efficiency; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958969023     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6151-8_13     Document Type: Chapter

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