This paper identifies the determinants of costs per pupil in English secondary schools. A distinction is made between the short run and the long run in order to estimate the separate effects on costs per pupil of short-run variations in school output and school size. A school's capacity...

Britain's education system was radically transformed during the 1990s following the Education Reform Act (1988). The primary objective of these reforms was to raise educational standards through the creation of a quasi-market based upon greater parental choice and the transfer of control over...

This paper examines the relationship between efficiency and default risk in Islamic banks (IBs) and Conventional banks (CBs) in Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and three Non-GCC countries over the period 2002-2010. Efficiency and default risk are measured using Stochastic Frontier Approach...

We compare, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the performance of Islamic and conventional banks prior to, during and immediately after the 2008 financial crisis (2004-2009). There is no significant difference in mean efficiency between conventional and Islamic banks when efficiency is...

This paper estimates the efficiency of students in English universities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a new dataset which is able to capture the behaviour of university students. Taking as the output the classification of a university degree, we use as inputs teaching hours and...

This paper examines the relationship between efficiency and default risk in Islamic banks (IBs) and Conventional banks (CBs) in Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and three Non-GCC countries over the period 2002-2010. Efficiency and default risk are measured using Stochastic Frontier Approach...