privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …

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 …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …

This paper analyses the impact of vertical grants on local public sector efficiency. First, we develop a theoretical … reduce efficiency if voters do not misinterpret the amount of vertical grants the local bureaucrats receive. If voters suffer … from fiscal illusion, i.e. overestimate the amount of grants, our model yields an ambiguous effect of grants on efficiency …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

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 …

global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency … environmental outcome and efficiency, and between cost-effectiveness and incentives for participation and compliance. …

Analysis (DEA). In particular, it estimates the efficiency of 78 SUCs based on available input data (i.e., expenditure data … results indicate that majority of the SUCs have efficiency score less than 1 and thus, they are considered inefficient. In …

consumers both acquire numerous goods that increase their efficiency. This leads to positive feedback loops which can be … interpreted as growth imperatives. For firms, increases of efficiency are accepted since long as a main motive for investments … terms, 'efficiency consumption' is introduced theoretically as a means for securing an income (consumer investment). It is …