Surveys of bank efficiency intrinsically draw conclusions based on the assumption that all banks in a sample use the … efficiency estimates by assigning incorrectly these deviations as inefficiency. We approach these consideration by estimating the … model by using data of the Greek banking sector for the period 1993-2008.Our results reveal that the Greek bank …

This work evaluates the economic efficiency of coffee growers and the decision-making processes in the configuration of … that on average, these coffee farmers had an economic efficiency of 89%. The group of coffee growers with efficiency levels … no structural inefficiencies that cannot be corrected; that is, these coffee growers can increase their efficiency and …

positions in global value chains. In this paper we analyse the relative contribution of R&D to the efficiency (productivity) on …While research and development expenditures are considered a key to productivity growth and development, the question … function approach. The results indicate that R&D capital productivity enhancing effect increases with the level of technology …

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and … results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth …. The highest growth within the region has occurred in the last two decades, especially due to improvements in efficiency …

Recent development and growth accounting studies have established that total factor productivity is an important source …, within the Cobb-Douglas framework, it weighs evidence of the two alternative explanations of total factor productivity …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the … progress (0.48%) was the major source of the TFP growth, whereas the importance of the technical efficiency change (0.09%) and … scale efficiency change (-0.01%) was negligible. …