The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …

We consider the efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly with substitutable goods where firms invest …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to … inform policy decisions, we show that the transfers required by the efficient mechanism create a mutual insurance motive …

investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …

health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly … drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …