Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency … efficiency gains are actually achieved by the firms entering into consolidation in India, which experienced large number of … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and … results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth …. The highest growth within the region has occurred in the last two decades, especially due to improvements in efficiency …

productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor …

China's major competitors, South Korea and Japan, over the period from 2000 to 2009. First, we analyse principal factors …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …