the efficiency and credit risk. The first of this aspects is based on the incentive to the banks to reduce cost in order … analyzed the effects of competition on the efficiency of banking systems without considering these aspects. The few studies … that attempt to obtainrisk adjusted efficiency measures do not consider that part of the risk is due to exogenous …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the efficiency of the travel agencies operatingin Spain, and to examine the … determining factors of such efficiency, in terms of verticalintegration, market concentration, size and performance. The … methodology employed is based on different techniques for the measurement of the efficiency (stochastic frontier production …

Traditional efficiency measures neglect bank risk and, even when risk is accounted for, do not differentiate between … environment (¿external¿). This paper proposes a new sequential DEA procedure which decomposes a major indicator of bank risk … affected banks¿ conduct in terms of efficiency and risk. Las medidas tradicionales de eficiencia no consideran el riesgo y …

average technical efficiency of each country by means of a DEA model called "basic" model. This model includes only banking …In this paper we extend the efficiency cross-country comparisons to ten European countries in order to know how … variables. Finally, the non homogeneity of the country-samples, observed after performing an individual DEA analysis for each …

Hypothesis testing and statistical precision in the context of nonparametric efficiency and productivity measurement … noticeable in the case of banking efficiency studies, where the literature is immense. In this paper, we explore productivity … growth and productive efficiency for Spanish savings banks over the (initial) post-deregulation period 1992?1998 using Data …

contribution to the growth of labor productivity of technical progress, of changes in efficiency, and of the accumulation of inputs …

This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of competencies among Spanish local … municipalities were conferred on more competencies. In addition, the likely efficiency gains from enhanceddecentralization increase …