Purpose. This paper focuses on analyzing the effect that public reforms have on the efficiency of state … that in a regulated environment like in the postal sector, public and private companies can obtain similar efficiency …

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 …

multidimensional efficiency measurement. Based on survey data for German research groups from three scientific fields it is shown that …

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

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 …