profitability and cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector are evaluated. The revenue performance of all banks, and …

This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms … significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency … across Italy's provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces …

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

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 …

commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 …) the effects of prudential tightening on the efficiency of banks vary across different prudential norms; and (3 …

to analyze the variation in labor productivity growth across China''s provinces. This approach imposes less structure on … the data than the standard growth accounting framework and allows for a breakdown of labor productivity into capital … deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress. Like other studies before us, we do not find strong evidence of …

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation between … and indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumental variable to examine the causal … productivity growth by facilitating firm entry, exit and reallocation. I also find evidence that the national highway system led to …

. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and … percent higher productivity and generate about 50 percent more of their revenues from exports. The results presented in this … productivity and exports when essential elements are in place for its effective use, such as reliable electricity …