efficiency of universities in a fundamental way. Choosing Italy and Germany as two important illustrative examples we can take … recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for …

envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their …

methodology. Overall, the results suggest that Eastern European banking had considerable scope for X-efficiency improvements …. However, the results also demonstrate that the efficiency gap between the sample countries declined over the period, and fewer … environmental factors contributed to the difference in the banking efficiency levels. …