Productivity Measuring In The Czech Banking Industry

Dimitrios Angelidis, Katerina Lyroudi, Athanasios Koulakiotis
2011 International Business & Economics Research Journal  
In this paper we investigate the productivity of the Czech banking industry for the period 1996-2002. The non-parametric frontier method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used in order to estimate the Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) change indices for 134 year-firm observations. Using the value added approach and calculating the geometric mean of the TFP, we find that the level of productivity of financial institutions meets a decline of 0.7%. Moreover, the technical efficiency
more » ... nges (TEC) is greater than unity, while the technological change (TC) is less than unity for the Czech banks during the period 1996 -2002.
doi:10.19030/iber.v4i12.3645 fatcat:7oqeyinzejfqljbcepgobqeam4