weak governance mechanisms. This empirical work examined association between board gender diversity (BGD), efficiency and … argument for policy formulation and regulations on gender quotas in both public and private insurance firms. This is …

The paper assessed linkage amongst governance mechanisms and efficiency of insurers in Kenya over 8 year period from … 2013 to 2020. The study estimated the efficiency of insurers using DEA approach in light of previous literature during the … first stage. During the second stage, the bias-corrected efficiency scores were regressed against corporate governance (CG …

profitability of insurance brokers in a developing economy, Ghana. Panel data from 64 insurance brokerage firms were sampled over a … significantly increased the demand for insurance and insurance products. Though prior studies have examined the factors that drive … the performance of the insurance industry from life and non-life perspective, not much attention had been given to the …

Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving … increasing attention in the academic as well as in the public discourse. Against this background we analyze the efficiency of 72 … efficiency of higher education. Our main finding is that East German universities have performed better in total factor …

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 …, increasing prices of operational resources as soon as decreasing producer prices effected lower efficiency in both countries. In …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agricultural enterprises during … their transition to a market economy in Ukraine. In this case the efficiency is calculated by data envelopment analysis and … technical efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the same time there is a high variation among individual …

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a relatively new method to measure Technical Efficiency (TE). TE of a Decision …). Efficiency comparison become more complicated when market values of the Inputs and Outputs are not available and the figures are … efficiency analysis is especially important for the enterprises in the transformation process. In DEA the Linear Programming (LP …

This Discussion Paper has been occupied with the analysis of the technical and scale efficiency of Russian farms during … methodical instrument has been chosen an input-oriented model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for efficiency measurement as … model calculations show an improvement in average efficiency from 1993 to 2000. In consideration of the performance …