This study investigates the relationship between women's political empowerment and quality of government in European regions. Given that the association is expected to be endogenous, we use exogenous variation in pre-industrial societal traits, legal origins, geographic characteristics, and...

This paper studies the relative performance of domestic and foreign banks in the Latin American and Caribbean banking industry. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to compute technical efficiency scores for the years 2001 and 2013. Our main contribution is twofold. On the one hand, we assess...