We analyze the interaction between market structure and market performance and how it varies over the product cycle. To …

and private school competition. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) an efficiency model introduced by Olesen and … the DEA why the possibility to discriminate between production units using educational data is discussed. Efficiency is …The purpose of the paper is to investigate the influence on efficiency in public education from teacher characteristics …

increasing. Public school efficiency is estimated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Modelling education is difficult since …The focus in this study is on how efficiency in public education is affected by competition from private schools. The …-economic backgrounds. A number of approaches have been proposed concerning how to model this in a DEA setting. In this study, four …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the two models are used to test whether there are significantly different efficiency estimates …This paper investigates the relative efficiency of 21 Swedish county councils through two efficiency models; one … other on quality outputs in the form of health-related outcomes (outcome model). Efficiency is estimated using Data …

errors. Additionally, estimates of firm level technical efficiency are severely biased for traditional MLE compared to … reliability ratio estimator, rendering inter-firm efficiency comparisons infeasible. The seriousness of measurement errors in a …

brink of bankruptcy. In one case, AIG used securities lending to transform insurance company assets into residential … threatening the solvency of the life insurance companies. AIG also sold insurance on multi-sector CDOs, backed by real estate …

The wealth dynamics of insurance companies strongly depends on the success of their investment strategies, but also on … investment strategy that does not take liquidity shocks into account, exposes insurance companies to the risk of bankruptcy. This … paper analyzes the behavior of insurance companies in an evolutionary framework. We show that an insurance company that …