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 …

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 …

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 …

terms of scale efficiency, the banks in Bahrain operate at the same level as banks in Singapore and their closest …

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 …

also assesses the relative efficiency of spending in education and health. The Slovak Republic spends more on social …

Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the …

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 …