This paper performs comparative analysis of the non-radial Russell output technical efficiency measures of 13 Eastern European banking systems assuming a banking production with risk as an undesirable output and where output components can be negative. This is analysed utilizing three modelling...

This paper fills a noticeable gap in the current economic and penology literature by proposing new performance-enhancing policies based on an efficiency analysis of a sample of male prisons in England and Wales over the period 2009/10. In addition, we advance the empirical literature by...