The major objective of this paper is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency … country. The key results show high average technical efficiency (TE) ranging from 91.8% to 94.9%, average rates of …

This study attempts to analyze the presence of weak form efficiency in the forex markets of a set of select European … we test for weak form efficiency using a family of individual and joint variance ratio tests. The results show that while … not informationally efficient. In the next stage, we estimate a measure of relative efficiency to show the extent to which …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …

The paper contributes to the debate on the stability/efficiency tradeoff of automatic stabilizers. A simple AD-AS two … system. Hence, lowering taxes for efficiency purposes may have not cost in terms of stabilization. This implication is tested …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …

flagship of public services. The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the efficiency of eleven …, liberalisation and investment in infrastructure have increased their efficiency or not. We make use of the DEA methodology to analyse … the efficiency of PTOs, as this model is especially appropriate to analyse organisations whose production process does not …

data envelopment analysis (DEA). According to obtained results Croatia had the worst ranking in the achieved efficiency. …

. Although in that period efficiency of public administrations as such performed better in the EU, the question is if the current … public sector structure, performance and innovation in Europe, and to explore the influence that public R&D might exert on …