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 …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in …

This study applies parametric distance functions to estimate the efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, and … subsequently employs extreme bounds analysis to establish the determinants of foreign bank efficiency that are robust to model … efficiency of the profit-creation process. The market share of the incumbent banks acts as a barrier to entry to efficiency in …

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

We exploit the outset of a regulation seeking to improve judicial efficiency through the rearrangement of courts … reform on both judicial efficiency and Non-Performing Loans ratio. Furthermore, we identify heterogeneous effects based on … the existing capacity of the courts to dispose of pending proceedings and geographical location. Digging deeper into this …