This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies …. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow … appreciable differences in efficiency and causes of efficiency. Results suggest that overall efficiency of farrow-to-finish and …

evaluations of the relative efficiency of management accomplishments, however they may have been planned or executed. Mathematical …

the firms and agents located in the region, so the study measures the potential benefits. Efficiency, technological …

This paper examines two important issues related to bank mergers in India. First, we estimate potential economic gains … of state-owned banks from consolidation. Scale economies, returns to scale and profit efficiency of state-owned banks … cost savings from mergers, provided they rationalise their branch networks although profit efficiency may not rise …

agents. In the case of IRS, we prove that it is always efficient to centralize the production of the good, whereas efficiency …

This paper separates market power and efficiency effects of concentration in a sample of 255 U.S. manufacturing … the cases, consumers lose as efficiency gains are generally pocketed by the industries. From an aggregate welfare …

Market liberalization in Central and Eastern Europe was targeted at establishing incentives that would improve economic … relationship with technical efficiency using a distance function approach is analyzed for the case of Czech agriculture. Contrary …, its effect on technical efficiency depends on whether such legitimacy efforts are valued by stakeholders or understood as …

dramatically improve the flow of information among market participants and increase efficiency. On the other hand, prevailing … behavior and decrease equilibrium prices, and assess how it impacts efficiency. The results show that the T-kDA significantly … lowers the equilibrium price and results in moderate efficiency losses. Most importantly, the T-kDA effectively counters the …

This paper separates market power and efficiency effects of concentration in a sample of 255 U.S. manufacturing … the cases, consumers lose as efficiency gains are generally pocketed by the industries. From an aggregate welfare …