Table 1.
Average of returns on equity (AROE) of 147 SA CBs.
Table 2.
Average of returns on assets (AROA) of 147 SA CBs.
Fig 1.
Percentage of total assets of South Asian commercial banks (Bank focus).
Fig 2.
Empirical evaluation outline of South Asian commercial banks’ performance analysis.
Fig 3.
Efficiency analysis based on meta-frontier analysis.
Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of input-output variables (N = 147).
Table 4.
Years-wise mean operational efficiency scores of all 147 CBs.
Fig 4.
Technical Efficiency of CBs across the South Asian countries over time.
Table 5.
Mean operational efficiency scores of each country’s CBs (2013–2018).
Table 6.
Technical efficiency and technology gap ratio of DEA-meta frontier in South Asian countries.
Table 7.
Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) results over time.
Fig 5.
Mean productivity change in all 5 countries.
Table 8.
Productivity change of each country’s CBs (2013–2018).