Purpose – This paper aims to estimate the cost efficiency scores of banks in KSA before and during financial crisis by … efficiency DEA and a second stage Tobit regression model. Findings – The results reveal that banks in KSA are least affected by … the crisis as the efficiency scores remain the same during all the periods. However, the average levels of inefficiency …

analyse the technical efficiency of insurances in the GCC countries using DEA methodology and Malmquist Productivity Index … (MPI) to decompose the change in the efficiency into an intrinsic component reflecting the individual change in technical … efficiency and a second component reflecting the impact of the change in the market technology on the individual technical …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine managerial efficiency of the whole population of petrochemical firms in … efficiency in context of various returns-to-scales. To glean further insights into the sources of inefficiency, the study … advantage of economies of scale. Originality/value This paper is a first attempt to measure efficiency of petrochemical sector …

reduction. Practical implications – The empirical results are useful in assessing the relative efficiency of the large Indian … efficiency. Originality/value – Unlike the previous studies on the efficiency of the ID&P industry, the paper have shown the … efficiency scores is also checked.  …

opportunities. However, researchers have yet to evaluate and compare the relative efficiency of LCLH carriers in this competitive … business environment. The purpose of this paper was to determine the relative efficiency of LCLH carriers in the Trans …-Atlantic and Asia-Pacific markets. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models were developed to compare the efficiency of five low …

. This work is a major contribution for measuring efficiency in IT outsourcing operations. …

, especially in terms of environmental efficiency. In this article, the authors have empirically explored socio-economic efficiency … of evaluating tourism sustainability and reshaping tourism activities. The proposed efficiency assessment procedure is … based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency when facing multiple …

The present research provides a critical review of the housing industry efficiency and its future in Iran. Data … technically efficient and the average efficiency score obtained by all states is 0.90. Most of the technically efficient states …

This paper examines the impact of the various types of foreign capital flows (or FCF) on the efficiency with which … returns to scale as the main factor preventing some countries from achieving the total efficiency level assumed by standard …

efficiency levels for these firms. The current paper measures the productive efficiency levels of real estate brokerage firms by … efficiency levels for a set of franchised and non‐franchised firms gathered by the National Association of Realtors. The results …