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 …, using estimation techniques that correct for measurement error. We develop tools to cope with heteroskedasticity in such …

subsequently employs extreme bounds analysis to establish the determinants of foreign bank efficiency that are robust to model …This study applies parametric distance functions to estimate the efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, and … 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 …’ geography in Italy to provide causal evidence on the relationship between judiciary structural reforms and banks financial … reform on both judicial efficiency and Non-Performing Loans ratio. Furthermore, we identify heterogeneous effects based on …

's intertemporal budget constraint. Our empirical analysis, based on Italy, shows that the Italian government is meeting its …