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 …

This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency … restrictions upon foreign bank entry and foreign ownership have been affectively abolished. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …

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 …

We explore the determinants of the number of long-term bank relations of listed Japanese firms using a unique data set … covering the period 1982-1999. Japanese listed firms have about seven long-term bank loan relations on average, but show a … large variation around the average. We analyze the determinants of the choice for the number of bank relations. We use data …

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 …

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. …

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

involved in the ownership relationship but without these negative efficiency effects. …