approach to examine the overall efficiency of insurance companies in Taiwan and mainland China during 2005-2011. Empirical … efficiency of life insurance companies in Taiwan and mainland China, while GDP growth rate, inflation rate, corruption index, and … climate risk negatively affect their managerial efficiency. …

export markets and firm-level productivity. Using a conditional stochastic dominance approach we reveal that although our …

, PCs improved productivity in slightly more than half of the participants. PC effects were on average negative because of …

with a focus on the spillover-induced productivity and efficiency change. The results show that spillovers as a result of … productivity effects vary across regions. Our analysis also indicates that highly skewed distribution of FDI leads to a less … improved innovation efficiency in FDI-rich provinces. Future innovation policy should adjust the investment profiles based on …

, PCs improved productivity in slightly more than half of the participants. PC effects were on average negative because of …

(OFDI) and productivity. Results show that, first, the pre-entry productivity of OFDI firms is higher than that of non … holds for labor-intensive firms. and Second, the post-entry productivity improvement of OFDI firms only gained by capital …

This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the … progress (0.48%) was the major source of the TFP growth, whereas the importance of the technical efficiency change (0.09%) and … scale efficiency change (-0.01%) was negligible. …