Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in … the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks …

Capital Stock using Spatial Frontier Analyses: A First Look at the Data -- Dynamic Technical Efficiency.- Analysing Labour … Productivity in Ecuador -- Hierarchical performance and unobservable heterogeneity in health: A dual-level efficiency approach …This proceedings volume examines state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing …

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model … -- Chapter 14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming. … efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers …

Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together … leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists …, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers …

Introduction: Theme, Objectives and Structure of the Book -- Methodology: Frontier Efficiency Measurement Techniques … -- Literature Review on Efficiency Studies in the Public Sector -- Applications to German Local Governments -- Summary and …

An Overview of the Pharmaceutical Sector in India -- The sources of Heterogenity in the Efficiency of Indian … Pharmaceutical Firms -- Comparing Efficiency Across Various Groups of Firms: A Meta-Frontier Approach -- Examining the Efficiency … envelopment analysis (DEA), a useful technique for understanding productivity and efficiency. It can provide guidance to the …