Title: Productivity & Efficiency in the Ghanaian Banking Sector (Using DEA & SFA)
Abstract: The study measures the level of Productivity and Efficiency in the Ghanaian Banking sector over a 10 years period from 1997 to 2006 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Various assumptions of DEA and SFA are modeled for comparison. The difference between Productivity and Efficiency is illustrated with an aid of a graph. The study estimates the Technical Efficiencies of the banks over time. The Technical Efficiency is decomposed to obtain the Technical Efficiency Change, Technological Change, Pure Technical Efficiency Change, Scale Efficiency Change and Total Factor Productivity Change over time. The results confirm that there is huge room for improving Efficiency in Ghanaian banking sector like any other developing country. There is some consistency on efficiency scores and ranking of the banks using the various models.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-11-24
Language: en
Type: article
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