*Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Payame Noor University, I.R Of Iran
**Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad Univercity, Dahaghan Branch, Iran
***Master Student of Economics, Payame Noor University, Department of Economics, Iran
Online published on 26 September, 2013.
The main objective of this study is to calculate the technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of Refah bank branches using data envelopment analysis method. To do this, the efficiency situations of nine branches of this bank, located in North Khorasan province, have been studied during fiscal years of 2009–2011 based on two assumptions of fixed return and variable return compared to the scale. In total, the results show that the three-year average of technical, allocative and economic efficiencies in the fixed return case than to the scale, respectively, have been as 0.847, 0.922 and 0.775, and in the case of variable return than to the scale respectively as 0.929, 0.930 and 0.865. Also in 2009–2011 years, respectively, 33%, 33% and 44% of the branches are efficient in both fixed and variable returns than to the scale.
Technical efficiency, Allocative efficiency, Economic efficiency, Data envelopment analysis
