A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal … education, non-farm business assets and road connectivity with reduced collections. Nepal households collected 25% less firewood …

Using census data from Nepal we examine how the partial derivatives of predicted household welfare vary with parental …

the most efficient innovation processes. We combine a traditional nonparametric frontier approach with super-efficiency … and tests for return to scale properties using bootstrap procedures to derive consistent and robust efficiency estimates … Denmark have the highest R&D efficiency on average in total manufacturing. However, sector-specific efficiency scores reveal …

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach. In … constraints. The efficiency scores presented are based on an intertemporal frontier estimation for the period 1995 to 2004. We …&D efficiency by attenuating the incentives to innovate and to allocate resources efficiently. …

efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A … conditional efficiency framework is used to account for the operating environment. Highest efficiency improvement potentials turn …

emerge: (i) any positive impact of ownership change is predominantly due to change in technical efficiency, not scale effects …

An enormous number of empirical papers have estimated technical efficiency, the distance of firms inside a frontier … efficiency and compare them to those in the statistical literature. We consider the relation between competition and efficiency …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …