Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range of advanced estimation techniques to overcome problems of non …

social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) model. Particularly, we calculate the technical efficiency and … environmental efficiency from a SFA model and use them as dependent variables of the model. Moreover, we investigate the social …

. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is … the efficiency of township hospitals through a two-stage approach. As curative and preventive medical services delivered … different orientation chosen to compute scores. Results show that technical efficiency declines over time. Factors explaining …

This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data …

This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain … productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of … Moldovan agriculture. We find that differences in technical efficiency explain very little of the great heterogeneity in …

agents affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational asymmetries generate inefficiency. In an environment where principals … principals. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the relative …

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French … frontier methodology.The econometric results corroborate our proposition: the technical efficiency of urban public transport …

banking crisis, the post-crisis period should be the time for recovering efficiency. Moreover, traditional banking theory …