Necmi Avkiran

Dr Necmi AVKIRAN

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Positions Held

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Academic Qualifications

Memberships

• 2005 - present Research Enhancement Group, UQI
• 1998 - present Australian Society for Operations Research (Executive Committee Member)
• 1992 - present Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance / Financial Services Institute of Australasia

Major Research Grants

Field of Current Research

Publications

International Refereed Publications

• "Opening the Black Box of Efficiency Analysis: An Illustration with UAE Banks", OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science, in press.
• "Bridging radial and non-radial measures of efficiency in DEA", Annals of Operations Research, in press.
• "Removing the Impact of Environment with Units-invariant Efficient Frontier Analysis: An Illustrative Case Study with Intertemporal Panel Data", OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science, 37(3), 2009, 535-544.
• "How to Better Identify the True Managerial Performance: State of the Art using DEA", OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science. 36(2), 2008, 317-324.
• "Stability and Integrity Tests in Data Envelopment Analysis", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 41, 2007, 224-234.
• "Modelling Knowledge Production Performance of Research Centres with a Focus on Triple Bottom Line Benchmarking", International Journal of Business Performance Management. 8(4), 2006, 307-327.
• "Developing Foreign Bank Efficiency Models for DEA Grounded in Finance Theory", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 40, 2006, 275-296.
• "Decomposing Technical Efficiency and Window Analysis", Studies in Economics and Finance, 22(1), 2004, 61-91.
• "Monitoring Hotel Performance", Journal of Asia Pacific Business, 4(1), 2002, 51-66.
• "Credibility and Staff Conduct Make or Break Bank Customer Service Quality", Journal of Asia Pacific Business, 3(3), 2001, 73-94.
• "Investigating Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Australian Universities through Data Envelopment Analysis", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 35(1), 2001, 57-80. (The most requested article in 2001, Elsevier)
• "Interpersonal Skills and Emotional Maturity Influence Entrepreneurial Style of Bank Managers", Personnel Review, 29(5), 2000, 654-671.
• "Rising Productivity of Australian Trading Banks under Deregulation 1986-1995", Journal of Economics and Finance, 24(2), 2000, 122-140.
• "An Application Reference for Data Envelopment Analysis in Branch Banking: Helping the Novice Researcher", International Journal of Bank Marketing, 17(5), 1999, 206-220.
• "The Evidence on Efficiency Gains: The Role of Mergers and the Benefits to the Public", Journal of Banking and Finance, 23(7), 1999, 991-1013.
• "Quality Customer Service Demands Human Contact", International Journal of Bank Marketing (UK), 17(2), 1999, 61-74.
• "An Improved Subordinate Appraisal of Bank Manager's Competence", International Journal of Human Resource Management, 10(2), 1999, 273-286.
• "Scientific Collaboration in Finance Does Not Lead to Better Quality Research" Scientometrics, 39(2), 1997, 173-184.
• "Models of Retail Performance for Bank Branches: Predicting the Level of Key Business Drivers" International Journal of Bank Marketing (UK), 15(6/7), 1997, 224-237.
• "Upward Evaluation of Branch Manager's Competence: How to Develop a Measure In-House", The Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 34(3), 1996, 37-47. (joint publication)
• "Developing an Instrument to Measure Customer Service Quality in Branch Banking", International Journal of Bank Marketing (UK), 12(6), 1994, pp.10-18 (1995 Award for Excellence, Highly Commended, MCB University Press, UK).

Other Publications

• "Banking on China", inFinance, October, 2008.
• "Assessing the real profit efficiency of banks in less regulated markets", JASSA (The Finsia Journal of Applied Finance), issue 1 Autumn, 2008, 35-39.
• "Has East Asian banking restructuring following the crisis improved efficiencies?", JASSA (The Finsia Journal of Applied Finance), issue 2 Winter, 2007, 28-31.
• "Using DEA in Benchmarking", JASSA, issue 2 Winter, 2006, 2-5.
• Productivity Analysis in the Service Sector with Data Envelopment Analysis, 3rd edition, 2006, N K Avkiran (ISBN 0-9580550-1-7). (Foreword by Professor Tim Coelli, with fifteen other expert contributors).
• Productivity Analysis in the Service Sector with Data Envelopment Analysis, 2nd edition, 2002, N K Avkiran (ISBN 0-9580550-0-9). (Foreword by William W Cooper, with other expert contributors)
• Productivity Analysis in the Services Sector with Data Envelopment Analysis, 1st edition, 1999, N K Avkiran (ISBN 0-646-38225-X).
• "What Kind of a Branch Manager Do You Want?", The Australian Banker, 112(6), December 1998, 212-213.
• "Performance of Foreign Banks in Australia" The Australian Banker, 111(6), December 1997, 222-224.
• "Pitfalls on the Way to Bank Mergers", The Australian Banker, 110(6), December 1996, 210-211.
• "Consolidating Staff Commitment", The Australian Banker, 110(3), June 1996,106-107.
• "Discriminant Analysis" published in the Coursepack for Higher Degree Students, David Syme Faculty of Business, Monash University, 1996.
• "Fine-tuning Delivery of Customer Service", The Australian Banker, 109(6), December 1995, 303-304.
• "The Shortcomings of Traditional Bank Performance Measures in Assessing the Performance of Your Branch", The Australian Banker, 109(3), June 1995, 125-127.
• "Benchmarking at the Branch Level for Continuous Improvement", The Australian Banker, 109(3), June 1995, 122-124.
• "Efficient Determination of Sample Size", Handbook for Post Graduate Program, David Syme Faculty of Business, Monash University, February 1994, 19-23.
• "Forex Risk Management", Corporate Management, Nov/Dec 1993, 45(6), 248.
• "Road to Recovery Goes Through Your Branches", The Australian Banker, 106(6), December 1992, 350.
• "Reconfiguring Bank Branches for Better Performance", The Australian Banker, 106(2), April 1992, 109.

Conference And Seminar Presentations

• (only Banking & Finance and Operations Research papers since 1996 are shown)
• DEA Symposium 2008, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan, An Illustration of Network SBM with Simulated Profit Centre Data for Japanese Regional Banks (invited guest speaker).
• AFBC 2007, UNSW Sydney, Distinguishing among the Impact of Measurement Error, Exogenous Factors, and Managerial Inefficiency on Profit Efficiency of Commercial Banks in UAE.
• Tenth European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 2007, Lille, France, Bridging Radial and Non-radial Measures of Efficiency in DEA (joint paper).
• 14th Global Finance Conference 2007, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Investigating Cost Efficiency of Asian Banks during the Post-Crisis Period: A Comparison of Frontier Techniques (joint paper).
• 5th International Symposium on DEA 2007, Indian School of Business Hyderabad, Investigating the Impact of Restructuring and Country-specific Factors on Post-crisis Asian Bank Efficiency (joint paper).
• AFBC 2006, UNSW Sydney, Does the level of interest rates distort measurement of bank efficiency? plus, The Impact of Post-Crisis Restructuring on Bank Efficiency (joint paper).
• Invited guest speaker presenting "How to Better Identify the True Managerial Performance: State of the Art using DEA" at Friday research seminar series, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne.
• AFBC 2005, UNSW Sydney, Timely Prediction of Commercial Bank Failures and Measuring Entropy: Integrating Principal Component and Logit Analyses.
• 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, 2005, CUT, Perth, Stability and Integrity Tests in Data Envelopment Analysis.
• AFBC 2004, UNSW Sydney, Productivity of Foreign Banks in Canada.
• Invited guest speaker on DEA addressing an academic audience from the Faculty of Business at USQ (2004).
• APPC 2004, UQ Brisbane, Controlling for Environmental Influence and Statistical Noise in Bank Performance.
• INFORMS 2003, Istanbul, Canadian Foreign Bank Branch Performance.
• ASOR 5th Operations Research Conference 2003, Purging Bank Performance Evaluation of Environmental Influence and Statistical Noise.
• AFBC 2002, UNSW Sydney, Purging Bank Performance Evaluation of Environmental Influence and Statistical Noise.
• International DEA Symposium 2002, Moscow, A Synergistic Partnership between DEA and Balanced Scorecard (keynote address).
• AFBC 2001, UNSW Sydney, Do Cost Inefficiencies Precede Financial Crises? (joint paper).
• INFORMS 2001, Hawaii, Triple Bottom Line Benchmarking for the Financial Services.
• International DEA Symposium 2000, UQ Brisbane, Changes in Productivity of the Retail Banking Sector in the Deregulated Period (conference organiser).
• AFBC 1999, UNSW Sydney, Decomposing the Technical Efficiency of Trading Banks in the Deregulated Period.
• OR 42 1999, University of Wales Swansea, UK, DEA and Window Analysis of Australian Bank Productivity since Deregulation.
• ASOR 1999 National Conference, Gold Coast, Investigating Productivity of Australian Universities through Data Envelopment Analysis.
• AFBC 1998, UNSW Sydney, Relative Efficiency Modelling in Branch Banking Using DEA.
• International DEA Symposium 1998, Wernigerode Germany, An Efficiency Analysis of Australian Universities Using DEA.

Distinctions

• 2008 Invited guest speaker at the DEA Symposium held at Seikei University, Tokyo
• 2006 Guest Editor, Special Issue on 'Productivity Benchmarking', International Journal of Business Performance Management, 8(4), 2006.
• 2005-2006 Nominated for the Award for Teaching Excellence, UQ Business School
• 2002 Keynote speaker at the International DEA Symposium, Moscow
• 1995 Award for Excellence, Highly Commended, MCB University Press (research paper)
• 1993 - 1995 Recipient of Australian Postgraduate Award for the duration of PhD studies
• 1983 - 85 Fulbright Scholar (MBA, Boston College))

Academic Cluster

Finance

Personal Web Page

http://www.uq.edu.au/financesite/

Absences

On leave Semester 2, 2008.