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Opening the black box of efficiency analysis: An illustration with UAE Banks

Avkiran, Necmi K. (2009-08) Opening the black box of efficiency analysis: An illustration with UAE Banks. OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science, 37 4: 930-941.

Document type: Journal Article
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Author(s) Avkiran, Necmi K.
Title Opening the black box of efficiency analysis: An illustration with UAE Banks
Journal name OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science
Publication date 2009-08
Year available 2008
Volume number 37
Issue number 4
ISSN 0305-0483
Start page 930
End page 941
Total pages 12
Editor(s) B. Lev
Place of publication Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publisher Elsevier
Collection year 2009
Language eng
Subject C1
150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)
910404 Productivity (excl. Public Sector)
Abstract Standard data envelopment analysis (DEA) does not provide adequate detail to identify the specific sources of inefficiency embedded in interacting divisions of an organization. On the other hand, network DEA gives access to this underlying diagnostic information that would otherwise remain undiscovered. As a first study of its kind, the paper illustrates an application of non-oriented network slacks-based measure using simulated profit center data that, in turn, rely on actual aggregate data on domestic commercial banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study also contributes to a perennial research problem, namely, inability of the outside researcher to access internal data for developing or testing new methods. In addition to these contributions to the Operations Research literature, focusing on UAE contributes to banking literature because this rapidly expanding part of the Middle East seldom appears in frontier efficiency literature.
Keyword(s) Network DEA
Efficiency
Simulation
Banking
 
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