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

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily …

' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability …We identify a puzzling management practice gap in China. In the South, a one standard deviation increase in firms ….1 percent in management practices and in all aspects of administration. We conjecture this is partially related to the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …. Exploring potential efficiency drivers, we uncover considerable effect heterogeneity between subject clusters, which is … seek external funding are largely identified to be primary efficiency drivers. …