References
- Aly, H.Y., Grabowski, R., Pasurka, C. and Rangan, N. (1990). Technical, scale, and allocative efficiencies in US Banking: An empirical investigation, Review of Economics and Statistics, May:211–218.
- Berger, A.N. and Humphrey, D.B. (1991). The dominance of inefficiencies over scale and product mix economies in banking, Journal of Monetary Economics, August:117–148.
- Berger, A.N. and Humphrey, D.B. (1997). Efficiency of financial institutions: International survey and directions for further research, European Journal of Operational Research, 98:175–212.
- Charnes, A., Cooper, W.W. and Rhodes, E. (1978). Measuring efficiency of decision-making units, European Journal of Operations Research, 2:429–444.
- Chen, T. (1998). A study of bank efficiency and ownership in Taiwan, Applied Economic Letters, 5(10):613–617.
- Coelli, T. (1996). A Guide to DEAP Version 2.1, A Data Envelopment Analysis (Computer) Program, CEPA Working Paper 96/07, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale.
- Coelli, T., Rao, D.S.P. and Battese, G.E. (1998). An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Correia, C., Flynn, D., Uliana, E. and Wormald, M. (2007). Financial Managemen. 6th Edition. Cape Town: Juta.
- Cronje, J.J.L. (2002). Data envelopment analysis as a measure for technical efficiency measurement in banking – A research framework, Southern African Business Review, 6(2):32–41.
- Cronje, J.J.L. (2007). Assessing the relative efficiency management of South African banks, Management Dynamics, 16(4):11–23.
- Drake, L. (2001). Efficiency and productivity change in UK banking, Applied Financial Economics, 11:557–571.
- Devaney, M. and Weber, W.L. (2000). Productivity growth, market structure, and technological change: evidence from the rural banking sector, Applied Financial Economics, 10:587–595.
- Drucker, P.F. (1995). The information executives truly need, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb:54–62.
- Drury, C. (2008). Management and cost accounting. 7th Edition. London: Southwestern.
- Ellis, S.M. and Steyn, H.S. (2003). Practical significance (effect size) versus or in combination with statistical significance (p-values), Management Dynamics, 12(4):51–53.
- Elyasiani, E. and Mehdian, S.M. (1990). A non-parametric approach to measurement of efficiency and technological change: The case of large US commercial banks, Journal of Financial Services Research, July:157–168.
- Elyasiani, E. and Mehdian, S.M. (1992). Productive efficiency performance of minority and non-minority owned banks: A non-parametric approach, Journal of Banking and Finance, 17:349–366.
- English, M., Grosskopf, S., Hayes, K. and Yaisawarng, S. (1993). Output, allocative and technical efficiency of banks, Journal of Banking and Finance, 17:349–366.
- Favero, C.A. and Papi, L. (1995). Technical efficiency and scale efficiency in the Italian banking sector: A non-parametric approach, Applied Economics, 27:385–395.
- Hanke, E.J., Wichern, D.W. and Reitsch, A.G. (2001). Business forecasting. 7th Edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall.
- Horngren, C.T., Datar, S.M. and Foster, G. (2006). Cost accounting: A managerial emphasis. 12th edition. Upper Saddle River: Pearson / Prentice-Hall.
- MacDonald, S.S. and Koch, T.W. (2006). Management of banking. Mason: Thomson.
- Mäkeläinen, E. (1998). Economic Value Added as a management tool, [On-line]. Available: www.evanomics.com/ (Accessed on 22 Jan. 2008).
- Marx, J. (Editor). (2006). Investment management. Pretoria: Van Schaik.
- Mendes, V. and Rebello, J. (1999). Productive efficiency, technological change and productivity in Portuguese banking, Applied Financial Economics, 9(5):513–521.
- Molyneux, P., Altunbas, Y. and Gardener, E. (1996). Efficiency in European banking. Chichester: Wiley.
- Oberholzer, M. and Van der Westhuizen, G. (2004). An empirical study on measuring profitability and efficiency of bank regions, Meditari Accounting Research, 12:165–178.
- O’Donnell, C.J. and Van der Westhuizen, G. (2002). Regional comparisons of banking performance in South Africa, The South African Journal of Economics, 70(3):485–518.
- Oral, M. and Yolalan, R. (1990). An empirical study on measuring operating efficiency and profitability of bank branches, European Journal of Operational Research, 46:282–294.
- Rangan, N., Grabowsky, R., Aly, H.Y. and Pasurka, C. (1988). The technical efficiency of US banks, Economics Letters, 28:169–175.
- Resti, A. (1997). Evaluating the cost-efficiency of the Italian banking system: What can be learned from joint application of parametric and non-parametric techniques, Journal of Banking and Finance, 21:221–250.
- Sherman, H.D. and Gold, F. (1985). Bank branch operating efficiency: Evaluation with Data Envelopment Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, 9:297–315.
- Sherman, H.D. and Ladino, G. (1995). Managing bank productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Interfaces, 25:60–73.
- Stavarek, D. (2002). Comparison of the relative efficiency of banks in European transition economies, Proceedings of the D.A. Tsenov Academy of Economics 50th Anniversary Financial Conference, Svishtov, Bulgaria, April:955–971.
- Van der Westhuizen, G. and Oberholzer, M. (2003). A model to compare bank size and the performance of banks by using financial statement analysis and data envelopment analysis, Management Dynamics: Contemporary Research, 12(4):18–26.
- Vassiloglou, M. and Giokas, D. (1990). A Study of the relative efficiency of bank branches: An application of Data Envelopment Analysis, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 41(7):591–597.
- Wegner, T. (2007). Applied business statistics: method and Excel-based applications. Cape Town: Juta.
- Wheelock, D.C. and Wilson, P.W. (1995). Evaluating the efficiency of commercial banks: Does our view on what banks do matter? Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, July/August:39–52.
- Yeh, Q. (1996). The application of Data Envelopment Analysis in conjunction with financial ratios for bank performance evaluation, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 47:980–988.