Assessing Performance of Banks in India Fifty Years After Nationalization

Dr Atanu Sengupta is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India, where he has been teaching for more than a decade. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He has published over 45 papers in various refereed national and international journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Sankhya, Social Indicators Research, International Journal of Education and Development, Indian Economic Review, Asia Pacific Development Journal, and Asia Pacific Journal of Education and Development, and has also contributed chapters in various edited volumes. He also published eight books, including two edited volumes. He is a regular reviewer for several reputed national and international journals. His areas of interest include econometrics, financial economics, development economics, microeconomics and growth theory. Dr Sanjoy De is anAssistant Professor, Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, under the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Previously, he served as Lead Analyst in Zacks Investment Research in Kolkata and as Senior Analyst at ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal, India. At ICFAI, he was responsible for writing numerous articles on business, finance and economics. He has also published papers in Indian Economic Journal, Journal of Income and Wealth, Mainstream Weekly and others. His areas of interest include banking, microeconomics and statistics.

• Introduction.- Bank Nationalization: Background and Formulation.- Review of Literature.- Issues in Data Selection and Description of Data.- Conventional Analysis of Banks' Performance.- Measurement of Competition.- Measuring of Banks' Performance by Using Super-Efficiency DEA Model.- Measuring Efficiency of Indian Banks Using Window DEA Analysis.- Informal Banking, Trust and Mutual Reciprocity.- Main Findings and Concluding Observations.