“…Presently, the DEA method is very popular in banking and financial sector performance measurement. A plethora of studies (e.g., Chang, Jang, Li, & Kim, 2017;Yu, Huang, and Shao, 2019;Sathye, 2003, Ray, 2007Ray and Das, 2010;Hada, Zhu, & Tamang, 2017;Wanke, Barros and Emrouznejad, 2016;Miller and Noulas, 1996;Zhu, Liu, Emrouznejad and Huang, 2017) applied the DEA models in banking and financial sectors of different regions of the world.…”