establish an accurate risk-return ratio. The efficiency of banks involved in the shipping industry is particularly important … shipping companies. This paper presents an effort to assess the shipping banks’ efficiency, and the determination of those … factors which affect their technical efficiency, through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis. The results of this …

it right away. The advantage to the state and its citizens is that monopoly efficiency does not just serve the monopolist … pain of losing the auction to a competitor. With minimal government intervention, the “invisible hand” of economic theory …, Subsidies, and Revenue; H21 - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation; H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies; H27 - Other Sources of Revenue) …

’ efficiency. A deficiency of DEA is that the efficiency scores assigned to each firm are sensitive to sampling variations … is limited compared to the number of inputs and output. As a result, in case of small samples, DEA efficiency scores … efficiency scores with stochastic properties. However, the DEA Bootstrap is still inappropriate in the presence of small samples …

lead to efficiency enhancements. These findings are confirmed for firms under union governance and suggest that well …

Corruption as an institutional factor of the state regulatory efficiency is seen in disfunction of distributed decision … performance. Thus, there are two polar set of institutional factors of state regulatory efficiency: negative (corruption) and …

lead to efficiency enhancements. These findings have been validated by a number of robustness checks, also taking into …

)Efficiency and equity are the two aspects of pension system ,and the aging problem,labor productivity,ma- croeconomic environment …,et al. will affect the relationship between efficiency and equity.(2)Parameter adjusting and Structure reforming is a good … important ,but also the efficiency,the disequilibrium of capital market and labor market can be improved through pension …

technique, for the purpose of studying differences in efficiency and technology gap across different regions of the continent … average technical efficiency score of the agricultural sector has been almost stable over time, while a marginal decrease of …

, illiquid and technologically bankrupt, severely affecting their informational efficiency. On this basis, with specific focus on … improve their informational efficiency by formally harmonising and integrating their operations using a new robust non … informational efficiency of the African continent-wide stock price indices over the individual national stock price indices used …