European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates … indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub … lack of import penetration. The results suggest that policy reform and more market openness will have positive productivity …

individual banks, the efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that … productivity had positive growth before regulation mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had … government regulation on the performance of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2003-2008. An alternative decomposition …

Measuring the productivity of highway concessionaires is very relevant, especially when a price cap regulation is … applied where tariff increases are based on expected improvements of productivity. Output may be measured in terms of traffic … productivity we consider only operating costs, as amortization and financial costs depend upon the original highway design and …

The paper investigates whether scale effects, market structure, and regulation determine the poor productivity … business services' productivity performance. In particular regulation-caused exit and labour reallocation costs have … performance of the European business services industry. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity …

seemed to solve stagflation but only repressed it and resulted into the crisis since 2007. The return of regulation also … causes the return of stagflation: what was repressed before now is into the open again. Re-regulation is required indeed but …

productivity are found to be the main factors determining relocation in the sector. These processes are facilitated by the …