This paper evaluates the effect of two policy changes on the efficiency of Italian regional governments in the … efficiency and the electoral accountability enhanced by institutions such as electoral rules and fiscal decentralisation. The …

An efficiency analysis revealed the relative magnitude of wood traits that distinguishes efficient radiata pine logs to …). Wood trait prices used to perform the cost efficiency corresponded to economic weights derived from a partial regression … price. There were positive and significant correlations between technical efficiency and wood stiffness (0.46, p<0.05) and …

This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …