This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general …’s efficiency is markedly better. As far as public order and safety are concerned, major improvements could and should be made …

This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general …’s efficiency is markedly better. As far as public order and safety are concerned, major improvements could and should be made …

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 …

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 …

This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general …’s efficiency is markedly better. As far as public order and safety are concerned, major improvements could and should be made …

; Thick Frontier Approach ; X-efficiency …

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