Performance and risk in the Brazilian banking industry

This paper assesses the technical performance of Brazilian banks while accounting for risk, which is considered as an undesirable outcome of banking. To this end, frontier techniques based on Data Envelopment Analysis and directional distance functions are applied to a sample of 124 banks and data f...

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Main Authors: Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández, Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo, Ignacio Jiménez-Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021006277