association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification …

Almost Ideal Demand System. In addition, we suggest a more general way of measuring efficiency that can incorporate a concern …

This study examines the impact of bond markets on both bank profit and cost efficiency. By employing the stochastic … efficiency. The development of bond markets generally has a positive (negative) effect on bank profit (cost) efficiency. Given … profit and cost efficiency. Moreover, given the development level of a country’s corporate bond market, a greater share of …

16 departments. The study illustrates how the recent developments in efficiency analysis and statistical inference can be …

measure inputs. Contrasting two alternative econometric strategies to identify technical efficiency yields relatively stable … results. Furthermore, the paper addresses the problem of unobserved heterogeneity by relating the obtained efficiency rankings …. The results suggest that technical efficiency rankings can be obtained in a relatively simple econometric setting …