The vast majority of the efficiency and productivity measurement literature has been based on the static viewpoint of … Factor Productivity growth has predominantly been based on static efficiency specifications. This di... … the firm. Few studies have developed the dynamic analog of static efficiency measurement, introducing the notions of long …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different …

function with a timevariable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … taken over by others are less efficient than the average bank in the same size class, but exhibit on average the same … efficiency as the acquiring firms. For the post-merger phase, our empirical results provide no evidence for efficiency gains from …

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …