This paper develops two cost decompositions based on the multiplicative and additive Russell efficiency measurement … decomposition we develop in this paper incorporates slacks directly so that efficiency is measured relative to the efficient subset …

Adopting a profit-based approach to the estimation of the technical efficiency of South Korean banks over the 2007Q3 to … technical efficiency scores on the chosen risk control variables embracing loan loss provisions and equity as good inputs and … the three risk control variables identified. The wider implication for research into bank efficiency is that the optimal …

In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different … efficiency distributions, and conducting a bootstrapped truncated regression analysis. We find evidence of interesting … differences in efficiency levels among various ownership groups, especially for foreign and local ownership, which have different …