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With limited financing options, increasing investment efficiency will be a critical avenue to building infrastructure … costs and other pressures. Estimating investment efficiency, however, presents many methodological pitfalls. Using various … methods--stochastic frontier analysis, data envelopment analysis (DEA), and bootstrapped DEA-this paper estimates efficiency …
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calculate a score for operational expense efficiency based on a stochastic frontier analysis. In addition, we offer potential … explanations for the observed variations in efficiency levels across central banks. Our analysis reveals significant heterogeneity … across countries and income groups. Central banks with a single objective demonstrate higher efficiency compared with those …
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Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency … is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the …
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terms of scale efficiency, the banks in Bahrain operate at the same level as banks in Singapore and their closest …
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We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide … possible explanations for the difference in the efficiency levels of banks. We find that banks, on average, could save 20 … and domestic private banks. Among the factors that could affect the efficiency levels are macroeconomic stability, depth …
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also assesses the relative efficiency of spending in education and health. The Slovak Republic spends more on social …
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While India’s growth has been strong in recent decades, its structural transformation remains incomplete. In this paper, we first take stock of India’s growth to date. We find that economic activity has shifted from agriculture to services, but agriculture remains the predominant employer....
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Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the …
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We compile the first large cross-country panel dataset of public sector performance and efficiency, encompassing 114 … lower efficiency in the respective sector. Moreover, we find that richer countries exhibit better public …
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