Sources of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
This paper examines the sources of total factor productivity in the Thailand banking sector during 1999–2008. We employ the output-oriented Malmquist productivity index first, proposed by Shephard (1970) to isolate efforts to catch up to the frontier (efficiency change (EFFCH)) from shifts in the fr...
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Inderscience Publishers
2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/5166/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5166/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5166/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5166/1/05_Sufian_a.pdf |