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 …

Estimating efficiencies of higher education institutions (HEIs) has become a central area of research in efficiency … analysis literature, particularly during the last two decades. Although the number of efficiency analysis researches in higher … between 2005 and 2010, belongs to the pioneering stream of researches conducting a comprehensive efficiency analysis on public …

in the efficiency and productivity of U.S. banks between 1985 and 2004. We find that larger banks experienced larger … efficiency and productivity gains than small banks, consistent with the presumption that recent changes in regulation and …

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

(MGMM), exploiting straight-forward modifications of the instruments, can achieve substantial efficiency gains and bias …

; Thick Frontier Approach ; X-efficiency …

efficiency. The proposed es- timator can be used to estimate the averages of economic variables such as inflation, exchange rate …

expression is derived exactly for Wiener processes with drift. The efficiency of the new proposed estimators is favorably …