In line with Law and Finance literature, this work investigates the relationship between investor protection and macroeconomic efficiency. We apply the stochastic frontier model proposed by Battese and Coelli [1995] on a sample of countries to estimate macroeconomic efficiency. Three measures of...

With the increasing domination of foreign capital in banking sectors of transition countries, it is of the highest interest to investigate the relative performance of domestic-owned and foreign-owned banks in these countries. We therefore aim here to compare the technical efficiency of...

This paper aims at providing theoretical foundations to the role of customer relationship as a strategic barrier to entry on banking markets. A bank which grants a loan to a customer gains a comparative advantage in information on this customer as compared with competitors. This informational...

This paper deals with the incidence of multi-office holding of local mandates on the French Deputies? work. We define this work through three types of activity : law production, control of the government and constituency representation. Using dea, we compute efficiency scores for the deputies...