more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to … regressions of profitability. Our main finding is that the efficiency scores indeed contribute significantly to explaining … profitability differences between firms, even after controlling for industry effects and unobserved systematic firm effects. …

This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures … measuring productivity and efficiency in a non-technical manner. Variousparametric as well as non parametric approaches are … is discussed and results are summarized. Key findingsfrom productivity and efficiency analyses for German banks are …

-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit technical efficiency space and which does not require information on input prices. To …

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non …,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002and 2006. This was followed by a second … hospitals performed significantlybetter than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a …