Open AccessEfficiency of the Tunisian trade banks: Study by the stochastic frontier approach
Author(s) -
Boutheina Bannour,
Moez Labidi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
panoeconomicus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2217-2386
pISSN - 1452-595X
DOI - 10.2298/pan1301103b
Subject(s) - inefficiency , frontier , stochastic frontier analysis , liberalization , order (exchange) , cost efficiency , economics , productive efficiency , econometrics , monetary economics , macroeconomics , microeconomics , finance , geography , computer science , market economy , archaeology , production (economics) , operating system
In this paper, we propose to evaluate the scores of productive efficiency of 20 Tunisian commercial banks throughout the period 1990-2009. The local banking landscape was marked, during the studied period, by significant changes following the adoption, by the Tunisian government, of various measures of financial liberalization. In order to study the levels of efficiency cost realized by the Tunisian commercial banks, we propose a parametric method, named the Stochastic Frontier Approach “SFA”, on the one hand, and the determination of the variables explaining the level of inefficiency (of efficiency) on the other hand. Our results make it possible to conclude that the banks which obtained the best scores of efficiency are the BT (99,5%), the BH (98,5%) followed the (94,9%) and de ATB (94,5%)