SAARJ Journal on Banking & Insurance Research
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 5

Scale efficiency of foreign banks in India-An operations research approach

Department of Statistics, S. V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Online published on 16 December, 2016.

Abstract

Data envelopment analysis is a linear programming-based technique for measuring the performance of organizational units which are termed Decision Making Units(DMUs) Decision making units can include manufacturing units, departments of big organizations such as universities, schools, bank branches, hospitals, power plants, tax offices, prisons, etc. The main aim of the present research is to measure the scale efficiency of foreign sector banks in India by using CCR(Charness, Cooper and Rhodes) and BCC(Banker, Charness and Cooper) Linear Programming Models.

Keywords

Linear Programming Models, Scale Efficiency, Decision Making Units