technical efficiency, capital deepening and technological change for Mexican manufacturing at the regional level. In order to do … regional differences in labor productivity are mainly attributed to technical efficiency, and, to a lesser extent, to regional …-2008. In both the north and the south, the increase in labor productivity was mainly driven by technical efficiency, while …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …

This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …

regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …

analysis indicates heterogeneity not only among the level of profit and cost efficiency, but also regarding the response of … efficiency evolution over the period. Moreover, we document the existence of banks that are more predisposed to be efficient in … sheet for improving the efficiency, albeit some of these strategies have opposite effects on the profit and cost efficiency. …

function with a timevariable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … 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 …

The main subject of theoretical-empirical study presented in this paper is economic efficiency of companies listed on … essence and assessment measures of companies' economic efficiency. The second part presents the results of a comparative … empirical research on economic efficiency of the companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and included in the WIG30 index …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …