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 …

This study aimed to test five fundamental factors (growth, profitability, leverage, liquidity, and efficiency) and two … industries. Earning per share was the dominant influence variable in six industries, where profitability factors in farming …

success? Focusing on the Big Bang’s stated objectives of promoting profitability and efficiency, this study examines the … profitability and efficiency declines on the whole, and the main targets of the deregulation, the big city, trust and long …-term credit banks, exhibit statistically significantly lower profitability and efficiency than their smaller counterparts. …

In this paper, multinationals’ motivations for R&D in China are compared across firms’ home countries. It is found that …, but this difference in profitability disappears once it is controlled for R&D type variables. In terms of an association … of R&D type variables with profitability, heterogeneous results are obtained by host countries. The degree of linkage …

In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different … efficiency distributions, and conducting a bootstrapped truncated regression analysis. We find evidence of interesting … differences in efficiency levels among various ownership groups, especially for foreign and local ownership, which have different …

Appropriate choice of cropping systems to local agro-ecology increases profitability and employment. The increased … labour shortage and reduced profitability are growing concerns to the farmers. Keeping this, the paper written with the … following objectives: i) To assess the profitability among different cropping systems in the semi-arid tropics; ii) To assess …

, their returns to scale and technical efficiency were derived. …