We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the … analysis output scores on nondiscretionary variables, both using Tobit and a single and double bootstrap procedure, we show …

determinants, we resort to simulation and bootstrap methods for the analysis. Results based on the Common Correlated Effect …

regressing data envelopment analysis output efficiency scores on non-discretionary variables, both using Tobit analysis and a … single and double bootstrap procedure, we show that inefficiency is strongly related to GDP per head, the education level …

The relationships between bank market concentration and bank efficiency are of particular relevance in the European … literature, testing not only the causality running from bank market concentration to bank efficiency, but also the reverse … causality running from efficiency to concentration. The results obtained confirm the relative complexity of these causality …

In this paper, the random stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the technical efficiency of Japanese airports …

share in the efficiency of the Nigerian insurance companies. The implications of this research for managerial purposes are …

We evaluate the efficiency of basic and secondary education in 24 governorates of Tunisia during the period 1999 … an increase in output efficiency scores in most governorates through the period from 1999 to 2008. …

In this paper we measure and analyse expenditure efficiency of Portuguese local governments using a non … and then compute input and output efficiency scores for 51 Portuguese municipalities located in the region of Lisbon and …

We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public … improvement might be possible in terms of efficiency. This could imply a better allocation by the universities of the usually …