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An inefficient business wastes resources, either by producing less than the feasible level of output from a given amount of input or by using excessive input to produce a given amount of output. Researchers often find that banks are quite inefficient, but don’t agree on how best to measure that inefficiency, or even how to measure bank production.
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Wheelock et al. (1995) studied this question.