This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … their superior scale efficiency. However, this superior efficiency did not necessarily result in superior profits. Our … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient …-level efficiency. …

This paper analyses technical efficiency of European banks over the period 1996-2003 with unbalanced panel data …

decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment … through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. …

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover … life cycle. This creates complementarities between efficiency and equity at early stages and trade-offs at late stages. The … paper goes on to discuss specific policies for efficiency and equity at each educational stage, ranging from early childhood …