Article ID: | iaor2008308 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 61 |
End Page Number: | 81 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
Journal: | Journal of AsiaPacific Business |
Authors: | Liu Benjamin, Tripe David |
Keywords: | performance |
This paper uses accounting ratios and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) to explore the efficiency impacts of 6 bank mergers in New Zealand between 1989 and 1998. The paper is the first reported application of DEA to the New Zealand banking sector, and its methodology is based around that used by Avkiran in his study published in the