Performance evaluation of public and private sector banks in India using DEA approach

Abstract

This paper seeks to measure the OTE, PTE and SE of PuSBs and PrSBs for the year 2009 to 2010 using DEA. The findings show that: 1) PuSBs outperformed PrSBs in all categories of efficiencies; 2) the contribution of scale inefficiency in overall technical inefficiency has been observed to be smaller than the contribution of pure technical inefficiency; 3) in PuSBs, State Bank of India (SBI) & its Associates outperformed nationalised banks and in PrSBs, new PrSBs outperformed old PrSBs; 4) the highest and lowest levels of average overall technical inefficiency have been seen for old PrSBs (48.8%) and SBI & its Associates (2.2%), respectively; 5) the results of the present study, by sensitivity analysis, are quite robust to discriminate between efficient and inefficient banks. Copyright © 2013 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.