A Profit Efficiency Perspective on the Future Strategic Positioning of the Portuguese Banks

Joana Resende and Elvira Silva ()
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Elvira Silva: CETE, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto

CEF.UP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto

Abstract: The Portuguese banking sector has been recently subjected to important structural changes. The diversification of the supply of financial services, the specialization phenomena and the growing importance of new technologies are changing the sector dramatically. A profit perspective is used to investigate the efficiency performance of the commercial banking sector in Portugal in the period 2000-2004 and infer some implications for the banks´ management strategic orientation. The Nerlovian and an alternative profit efficiency measures are used, illustrating the potentialities of the directional distance functions to the profit efficiency analysis. A decomposition of the alternative profit efficiency measure is also proposed.

Keywords: Banking; Nerlovian profit efficiency; alternative profit efficiency; directional distance functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 G21 L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2007-03
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