The Sources of Efficiency in the Nigerian Banking Industry: A Two-Stage Approach

Frances N Obafemi, Olumide S Ayodele and Friday S Ebong
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Frances N Obafemi: Department of Economics, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
Olumide S Ayodele: Department of Economics, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
Friday S Ebong: Department of Economics, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, 2013, vol. 2, issue 4, 78-91

Abstract: The paper employed a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to examine the sources of technical efficiency in the Nigerian banking sub-sector. Using a cross section of commercial and merchant banks, the study showed that the Nigerian banking industry was not efficient both in the pre-and-post-liberalization era. The study further revealed that market share was the strongest determinant of technical efficiency in the Nigerian banking Industry. Thus, appropriate macroeconomic policy, institutional development and structural reforms must accompany financial liberalization to create the stable environment required for it to succeed. Hence, the present bank consolidation and reforms by the Central Bank of Nigeria, which started with Soludo and continued with Sanusi, are considered necessary, especially in the areas of e banking and reorganizing the management of banks.

Keywords: Banking Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; Financial Liberalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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