The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study … estimates and decomposes profit changes into components such as output and input price changes, output growth, and markups … scale, and efficiency change. We apply the profit decomposition to several full private water companies (FPWCs …

This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of … parametric approach to estimate profit efficiencies of Indian banks. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a non …-parametric, mathematical programming technique, to estimate profit efficiency (PE) of 66 Indian banks (26 public, 19 private and 21 foreign …

and its performance. This study argues that it is more appropriate to measure firm performance using profit efficiency … impact of corporate reputation on profit efficiency. Finally, implications of the aforementioned focal points are discussed. …

The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and … banks are more profit efficient than small and medium banks. Over the period, private banks showed the highest improvement …

the profitability, supply response, and input demand of tobacco farms in Pakistan remain unknown. Our study fills this gap … by examining farm-level profitability, input demand, and output supply using survey data of 140 tobacco farms by … employing a profit function approach. The results show that tobacco production is not very lucrative at the farm level and …