The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient …-level efficiency. …

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 efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly …

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 …

economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate … production units. The present paper investigates the effects of taxation on production efficiency, accounting for the … effect of this "tax induced organizational change" on production efficiency ultimately depends on the characteristics of the …

This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … their superior scale efficiency. However, this superior efficiency did not necessarily result in superior profits. Our … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …

countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such … distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech regions over the 2007-2014 period, we find that the efficiency of public … power ("party donors"). We link this efficiency difference to two underlying mechanisms: i.e. shifts in procurement contract …