... strategies over balance-sheet expansion. Originality/value The study provides one of the first ever comprehensive, bias-corrected DEA empirical assessments of operational efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa in Islamic banking. By distinguishing operational efficiency from traditional profitability measures...

..., 2008). In spite of these reforms, district municipalities continue to suffer recurrent public protests against poor service delivery (Dollery and Graves 2009 , p. 103; Bruce, 2014 ; Burger, 2009), suggesting the persistence of inefficiencies. DEA solves the problem by finding the highest score...

... into the Ghanaian banking industry on efficiency, Saka et al. (2012) find that the resultant competition had improved the efficiency of the banking system. They employed the two-stage DEA procedure to estimate TE scores in the first stage and Tobit estimation to examine the drivers of efficiency within...