This book applies econometric techniques to test the relationship between efficiency and risk within the banking industry in China. Chapters examine how efficiency has been affected by different types of risk-taking behaviour and how risk has been an important determinant of bank efficiency in...

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides...

This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on...

What effect did the Great Recession have on national innovation? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in...

This book develops new, original methods of welfare comparison and comparative dynamics between distinct and discretely positioned (rather than continuously related) socioeconomic situations. These methods are not only realistic but also extremely relevant to serious economic problems. Using...

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization’s efficiency, criteria for evaluating the efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency. The articles included present an interdisciplinary look at efficiency, its essence and the principles of its measurement....

This book examines the capabilities organizations need in order to meet the dual mandate of current and future performance. It develops a theoretical framework for dual organizing, which emphasizes the escalation of both explore and exploit ventures simultaneously in order to sustain a...

1. Introduction -- 2. Banking System in India: Developments, Structural Changes and Institutional Framework -- 3. Measurement of Bank Efficiency: Analytical Methods.- 4. A Survey of Empirical Literature on Bank Efficiency.- 5. Relevance of Non-traditional Activities on the Efficiency of Indian...

This book focuses on the innovative and more critical management approach adopted in the PA (Public Administration) in order to identify and describe the main models and instruments to economically evaluate the decision making process in accordance to the specific conditions such as efficiency,...

Annette Illy entwickelt Bewertungsmaßstäbe zur Messung von Dezentralisierung auf kommunaler Ebene und untersucht mit modernen ökonometrischen Methoden den Einfluss von Gemeindetypen und Gemeindegröße auf die kommunale Effizienz und die Zufriedenheit der Bürger. Dies ist vor allem vor dem...