The aim of this work is to study the degree of efficiency achieved by foreign banks installed in Spain between 2000 … Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI). The results of DEA model indicate an increase in efficiency in the so - called pre - crisis …

This article analyses the competitiveness in the inner regions of Portugal using an institutionalist approach. After … reviewing academic work about the different aspects of competitiveness it then tests the hypothesis: “The inner regions of … Portugal have competitive socio-economic dimensions in the national context”. A Cities Competitiveness Index was constructed …

This paper analyzes the relation between bank mergers and changes in the concentration and efficiency of the Venezuelan … Banking System during the period 1998-2005. Efficiency was estimated through a stochastic cost frontier model. The … that banking mergers did not produce efficiency increases; on the contrary, the merged banks were less efficient than non …

of like an opportunity, which means to redefine its model of business betting by a greater efficiency. The objective of …

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …