We study bidder bahavior and performance in 53 main refinancing operations (repo auctions) of the European Central Bank …

We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the …

indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. JEL …A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization …

frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods …

investment, innovation). The paper addresses the approaches used to assess the performance and efficiency of public spending, and …

In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in … emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement issues, we compute efficiency scores and … rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …

economies. We also assess the efficiency of public spending in redistributing income by using a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis …

The European Central Bank (ECB) carried out a study of the social and private costs of different payment instruments …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …