This study examines the technical efficiency of schools in Australia and its determinants using NAPLAN test results of … region, state and territory in which the school is located. We estimate that the average technical efficiency score of … target for schools in the sample to reach the efficiency frontier is 100 NAPLAN points. Our results suggest that eliminating …

This paper uses a two-stage data envelopment analysis to examine bank efficiency in Malaysia. In the first stage, we … efficiency can give significant contradictory results in efficiency scores. In the second stage, we use Simar and Wilson’s double … bootstrap regression to estimate the determinants of efficiency in Malaysian banks. This helps to achieve valid inference even …