“convergence clubs” in cross-national section. It implements a traditional analysis of convergence tracking the catching-up process …

“convergence clubs” in cross-national section. It implements a traditional analysis of convergence tracking the catching-up process …

This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the … distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R …&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm …

The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical Data … and correct the bias, and to construct confidence intervals for the efficiency measures. The simulation results show that … the efficiency measures are subject to sampling variations. The adjusted measure reveals that high schools with residence …

The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical Data … and correct the bias, and to construct confidence intervals for the efficiency measures. The simulation results show that … the efficiency measures are subject to sampling variations. The adjusted measure reveals that high schools with residence …

rather than efficiency increase. For the cases of productivity decline, however, the changes come from the efficiency side …This paper aims to find the productivity change in the banking sector between 1990 and 2006, with an emphasis to the … Malmquist TFP Change Index and its mutually exclusive and exhaustive components of efficiency and technological changes over …

data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … decomposition into technical change and efficiency change components. The analysis is undertaken using the data envelopment analysis … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the …

. which attracted more and more customers using the banking’ services; the efficiency of the banking system also has been … increasing. So far, there is still a lack of research on the efficiency of the banking sector in Vietnam over the decades … front gate. This paper, which focuses on evaluating the efficiency of bigger sample size of Vietnamese commercial banks in …

This study illustrates how the recent developments in efficiency analysis and statistical inference can be applied when … six step procedure in order to evaluate whether a potential bank merger can exhibit economies of scale and characterized …

The non-parametric frontier approach, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed to investigate the efficiency of … most efficient bank is also highly ranked in terms of returns with relatively low standard deviation and beta. The results … also suggest that all stocks which managed to appear on the efficiency frontier were mainly driven by the relatively higher …