In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a … and, thus, produce railway services with a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production … is more efficient, we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency …

financial intermediation and the supremacy of banks' efficiency. This study examines the concurrent effects of bank risk …, efficiency and cost of financial intermediation of Bangladeshi commercial banks. The Two-Step System GMM (2GMM) estimators of …-level, industry-level, and macroeconomic-level phenomenon. Efficiency gains cost the spread of banks' financial intermediation, and …

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 …