Resource planning of Chinese commercial banking systems using two-stage inverse data envelopment analysis with undesirable outputs

PLoS One. 2019 Jun 13;14(6):e0218214. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218214. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

This paper develops two-stage inverse data envelopment analysis models with undesirable outputs to formulate resource plans for 16 Chinese listed commercial banks whose outputs are increased and overall efficiency is kept unchanged in the short term. We use these models to meet three different output targets, namely, increasing both the desirable and undesirable outputs by the same percentage, increasing these outputs by different percentages, and increasing only the desirable outputs while keeping the undesirable outputs unchanged. We find that operation cost and interest expense are more flexible than labor in the adjustment process and that deposits have no obvious law of change. The findings of this work provide some suggestions for bank managers.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Financial Management*
  • Models, Economic*
  • Resource Allocation*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 71771041,71501034 awarded to YL; grant number 71871223 awarded to QA); Innovation-Driven Planning Foundation of Central South University (grant number 2019CX041 awarded to QA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.