. -- Sparkassen ; Effizienz ; Data Envelopment Analysis ; Regressionsanalyse ; demographischer Wandel ; schrumpfende Regionen …

This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German … differentiates between declining and growing regions. Regional and demographic factors explain part of the variation in efficiency … levels. Population density and branch penetration positively affect efficiency in growing regions. A negative impact of …

regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …, while it can be disaggregated into industry-specific innovation efficiency measures. The latter is particularly useful when …