Die Effizienz der öffentlichen Verwaltung ist ein bedeutender Faktor für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Mitgliedsländern …

Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die Auswirkungen der Reformen und die Veränderungen in den Agrarunternehmen zu … der durchschnittlichen Effizienz im Vergleich von 1993 zu 2000. Bei der Betrachtung der Einflussfaktoren auf die … technische Effizienz hat die Wahl der Rechtsform keinen Einfluss. Hingegen beeinflussen Betriebsgröße und Spezialisierung die …

addressed in regulatory schemes. However, this important aspect is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis of these … industries. In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks using a sample of about 500 …-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and without incorporating quality of service …

costs. We used two different concepts of efficiency, namely, cost efficiency and alternative profit efficiency, and found … efficiency of CRBs. We failed to find very conclusive evidence that corporate governance theories apply to the Philippines' CRBs … that agency costs should reduce efficiency of CRBs, and we found a much clearer relationship on that issue. As expected …

paperanalyzes the efficiency effects of 52 horizontal bank mergersover the period 1994-1998, i.e. the period immediately … importantcatalyst for bank consolidation in Europe. In order to assessthe public policy issues surrounding bank mergers, this …, while therelative degree of profit efficiency improves only marginally.We do not find any evidence that merging banks are …

bank profitability. We evaluate a broad field of research by introducing a general framework for a profit maximizing bank … suggest ways to more clearly distinguish between market power and efficiency, and explain why we need time-dependent models …

indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. …A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …