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 …

This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers … results on capital stock and ICT capital estimates (at both national and regional levels) which will be an important resource …

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 …

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 … Spillovers and Innovative Startup Firms.- Accounting for Natural Capital in Productivity of the Mining and Oil and Gas Sector …

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 …

technological innovation, improvement in efficiency, and the capital deepening brought about by new business investment, shedding …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 …

measures can be viewed as measures of productivity and/or efficiency. Linking fields as diverse as index number theory, data … change can be decomposed into measures of technical progress, environmental change, and different types of efficiency change …. Managerial Behaviour -- Chapter 5. Measures of Efficiency -- Chapter 6. Piecewise Frontier Analysis -- Chapter 7. Deterministic …

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 the context of the series of reforms impacting banks in China …