component of total factor productivity (TFP gap) with a factor structure to include a wide array of business cycle indicators …

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 …

. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model. …

This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation framework for panel-data sets with binary dependent variables where a large … micro-, meso-, and macroeconomic levels. The paper outlines the estimation approach, illustrates its suitability by …

We present a general framework for Bayesian estimation and causality assessment in epidemiological models. The key to …