The overall goal of this thesis is to define, measure, estimate and decompose the technical efficiency at bank level (for the main study) and the allocative efficiency at branch level (for the pilot study) of Vietnamese banks during the financial liberalisation period by applying both parametric methods and non-parametric methods (data envelopment analysis, or DEA). The two-stage model DEA method is applied in the thesis for two specific stages of banking business (the production stage and the intermediation stage). Both methods (parametric and non-parametric) are equally and consistently applied for both the pilot study and the main study. | Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Business administration: The competitiveness and efficiency of the Vietnamese banking sector in the face of financial liberalisation
