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Analysing Productivity Changes Using the Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach: The Case of the Iranian Banking Industry
Arjomandi, Amir; Valadkhani, Abbas; Harvie, Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
government regulation on the performance of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2003-2008. An alternative decomposition … comprehensive analysis of Iranian banking industry performance. While this approach is more appropriate than the traditional … Malmquist approach, for the case of banking efficiency studies, it has not previously been conducted for any developing country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260807
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Efficiency Measures of the Greek Banking Sector: A Non-Parametric Approach for the Period 1997-1999
Halkos, George; Salamouris, Dimitrios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This study explores the efficiency of the Greek Banking sector with the use of a number of suggested financial … improvement of each bank. The analysis shows that, the total improvement in efficiency in the Banking sector is mainly attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617200
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Effectiveness of the Global Banking System in 2010: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach
Thanh, Ngo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current crisis has revealed the weaknesses of the global financial in general and its banking system in particular …, put forward a requirement for assessing the effectiveness and stability of the banking sectors across countries. Based on … available data from 64 countries over the world, the author tried to evaluate the effectiveness of the banking sectors in those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109543
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L’efficienza tecnico-economica dei servizi pubblici locali: i casi delle farmacie comunali e dei servizi di igiene urbana
Bracalente, Bruno; Polinori, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study focuses on the technical and economic efficiency achieved in two local public service sectors: pharmaceutical services and integrated waste services. In the first study we also took in account the social dimension of the service as the health corner, the CUP service (e.g. Useful to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359948
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Finding Common Ground: Efficiency Indices
Fare, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Zelenyuk, Valentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The last two decades have witnessed a revival in interest in the measurement of productive efficiency pioneered by (1957) and (1951). 1978 was a watershed year in this revival with the christening of DEA by (1978) and the critique of Farrell technical efficiency in terms of axiomatic production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805835
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On the redistributive efficiency of fiscal policy
Kyriacou, Andreas; Muinelo-Gallo, Leonel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of public spending and taxation in a panel of both advanced and developing economies during the last three decades (1984-2012). In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212779
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Efficiency And Productivity Growth Across The Italian Regions: The Regional Divide Revisited
Pompei, Fabrizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method. This approach allows us to perform a sensitivity analysis of the efficiency scores at regional level, in which human capital is included...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258688
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Productivity change using growth accounting and frontier-based approaches – Evidence from a Monte Carlo analysis
Giraleas, Dimitris; Emrouznejad, Ali; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study presents some quantitative evidence from a number of simulation experiments on the accuracy of the productivity growth estimates derived from growth accounting (GA) and frontier-based methods (namely Data envelopment Analysis-, Corrected ordinary least squares-, and Stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258844
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Renewable energy consumption and economic efficiency: Evidence from European countries
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic efficiency. For this reason conditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) estimators alongside with nonparametric regressions are applied in a sample of 25 European countries for the year 2010. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259333
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Strategy in practice: a quantitative approach to target setting
Fafaliou, Irene; Zervopoulos, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
An extended quality-driven efficiency-adjusted data envelopment analysis (QE-DEA) method is developed to measure the performance of service units. Performance is measured based on efficiency and users’ satisfaction. The extended QE-DEA method identifies as benchmarks only units that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259893