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

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 …

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. …

-2021. To this end, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

We develop a stylized DSGE model in which banks face capital regulation and their loan portfolios are subject to non … conditions, credit default and bank capitalization for the transmission of macroeconomic shocks. We fit the model to euro area … empirical literature, i.e. the pro-cyclicality of bank profitability and the counter-cyclical response of firm default rates and …

', if fiscal consolidation is combined with a program for bank recovery and for competitiveness and growth. The second … benign exit from the Eurozone with stable investor expectations could substantially dampen the short-run impact … escalation. Capital market reactions would offset the benefits of monetary autonomy and much delay the recovery. …

education. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare (benchmark) the Nordic countries with a relevant group of rich OECD … 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 …

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data … specifications, we contend that PSE is increasing with fiscal decentralization. -- public sector efficiency ; fiscal decentralization …