efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski …

. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …

switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort …'s constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be …