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Fee-Based Activities and Technical Efficiency: An Assurance Region Model of Indian Commercial Banks

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  • Ram Pratap Sinha
  • Biswajit Chatterjee

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The paper compares 38 Indian commercial banks in terms of their fee-based activities and off balance sheet exposures using the assurance region model (a non-radial approach to data envelopment analysis). This approach avoids the problem of slacks by imposing restrictions on the shadow prices of inputs and/or outputs. The results available from the application of the assurance region model in the context of the Indian commercial banks (for measuring their technical efficiency in respect of fee-based activities) suggest a secular improvement in technical efficiency over the observed years. However, there are significant differences in mean technical efficiency across ownership categories (public and private sector commercial banks). Finally, there has been a significant shift in the returns to scale characteristics of the observed commercial banks during the period under observation.

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  • Ram Pratap Sinha & Biswajit Chatterjee, 2008. "Fee-Based Activities and Technical Efficiency: An Assurance Region Model of Indian Commercial Banks," The IUP Journal of Bank Management, IUP Publications, vol. 0(4), pages 41-49, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:icf:icfjbm:v:7:y:2008:i:4:p:41-49
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