Efficiency in the Romanian Banking System: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Mihai Nitoi ()
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Mihai Nitoi: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,University of Craiova

Romanian Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 29, issue 2(38), 162-176

Abstract: The paper analyzes the efficiency and productivity of the Romanian banks from 2006-08. It uses a non-parametric approach, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze banks’ efficiency. Based on a sample of 15 commercial banks, our findings reveal that although the efficiency of the Romanian commercial banks improved since 2006, the cost efficiency scores are relatively low. Also, even if in 2007 the total factor productivity increased, in 2008 this score of the average productivity of banks decreased.

Keywords: bank performance; cost efficiency; productivity; data envelopment analysis; Malmquist Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D24 G21 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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