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...

Recent work on business strategy considers the evaluation of company performance using frontier methods (Devinney et al., forthcoming). The present paper builds on that work to examine the extent to which company performance in one period impacts on business practices and hence performance in...

A multiproduct cost function is estimated for English higher education institutions using a panel of data from recent years. The panel approach allows estimation by means of a random parameter stochastic frontier model which provides considerable new insights in that it allows the impact on...