Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not … compensating differentials will increase both efficiency and fairness, quite in line with the classical position taken by Adam … Differentiale heranführen dienen zugleich der Verbesserung der Effizienz und der Gerechtigkeit. …

This paper provides new estimates of small holder farmers' technical efficiency and its principal determinants using a … analysis shows that the mean technical efficiency of farmers is 60.38% implying that output in the study area can be increased …, participation in irrigation, and member to association) have significant effect on efficiency of farmers. The sign of coefficients …

Most recent studies are based on benchmarking analysis allowing the measure of company efficiency relatively to a … reference performance. Benchmarking is a helpful tool to analyze and promote efficiency in insurance companies. The fast … development of X-efficiency notion makes traditional performance measures (ROA, ROE, etc.) obsolete. Indeed, various methods have …

theory of fiscal federalism. The main question is, so forth, studying when centralization of a public economic function, such …

’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect …

transformation into diversified farming systems can affect the economies of scope, technical efficiency, and performances of farms … education and further land reforms are main technical efficiency shifters. We also find the complementarity evidence between …

developed to extend the measurement of total factor productivity and its components (technical progress and technical efficiency …

for measuring technical efficiency, the effects of endogeneity on such efficiency estimates have received little attention … processes like the correlation between one input and the efficiency level. Second, we use synthetic data generated in a Monte … correlation between one input and the true efficiency level, significantly and severely biases DEA performance. …

This paper seeks to examine empirically whether foreign banks on an average operate with greater efficiency and so … for the banking industry is estimated and bank-wise technical efficiency is computed. In the second stage, the authors … compare the mean efficiency level of foreign banks with that of domestic banks. In addition, foreign and domestic banks are …