Quantitative efficiency assessment based on the dynamic slack-based network data envelopment analysis for commercial banks in Ghana

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

 
 
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Title Quantitative efficiency assessment based on the dynamic slack-based network data envelopment analysis for commercial banks in Ghana
 
Creator Zhou, Zhixiang Amowine, Nelson Huang, Dechun
 
Subject — two-stage network DEA model; dynamic slack-based measure; banks; non-performing loans; Ghanaian banks
Description Background: Gains in bank efficiency improvement have widely been regarded as one of the most effective and efficient means of ensuring sustainability of a financial system. Aim: This article proposes a relative dynamic two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for measurement of bank efficiency based on the slack-based measure. Setting: Twenty-seven banks in Ghana during the period of 2009–2014. Methods: By considering simultaneous processes within the framework of two-stage data envelopment analysis, the slack-based measure approach identifies the sources of inefficiency in the banks. Results: In the empirical analysis, non-performing loans are an undesirable output in one production process, which should also be treated as a carry-over factor; that is to say, some non-performing loans from the preceding year can be collected in the current year. The carry-over factors should be used to indicate the presence of performance gaps that exist in the banks. The proposed model was used to measure the efficiency of the 27 banks in Ghana during the period of 2009–2014. We also present useful suggestions for improvement in bank efficiency based on the empirical results. Conclusion: The 27 main commercial banks in Ghana are far from efficient. For all banks, the efficiency score in the second stage is much higher than that of the first stage. That means more attention should be paid to the first stage of production in order to increase the banks’ efficiency.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
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Date 2018-04-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajems.v21i1.1717
 
Source South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences; Vol 21, No 1 (2018); 11 pages 2222-3436 1015-8812
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage — — C14, C61, G21
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Zhixiang Zhou, Nelson Amowine, Dechun Huang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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