DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2015.v02i01.015

Pages: 99-111

This paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to compute the technical efficiency of individual commercial banks in Egypt over the period after revolution of January 25, 2011.The sample of commercial banks includes: state owned banks and private banks (domestic and foreign owned banks). Results indicate that over the study period. There were seven banks could not achieve DEA efficiency score of 1 in 2011, while there were only three banks in 2012, and six banks in 2013. The inefficient banks operated at incorrect scale, where the majority experienced decreasing returns to scale (DRS) in their operations. Peer group analysis was also conducted to compare banks that are inefficient with efficient banks which belonged to a reference set. Moreover, the study was identified input and output slacks of inefficient banks and suggested the efficient input and output targets for improvements.