Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65768 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2011/27
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency in order to survive. We employ the Simar-Wilson (2007) two-step double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method to measure whether cost efficiency among Jamaican banks has improved between 1999 and 2009 following a number of post-crisis responses aimed at strengthening and improving the sector. Efficiency is extracted from a meta-frontier construction for the full sample period. In addition we conduct tests for unconditional beta- and sigma-convergence and overall, the results suggest that there has been a tendency towards improvement in bank efficiency levels for the industry as a whole but there is also evidence that foreign banks show a higher trend improvement in efficiency.
Subjects: 
bank efficiency
DEA
bootstrap
convergence
Jamaica
JEL: 
G21
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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