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 …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

research aims to know what has been the behavior of productivity and efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the province … reports of the manufacturing companies between 2010 and 2018 was processed. The values of efficiency were estimated using the … data enveloping analysis technique. With the annual information, the evolution of productivity and efficiency was predicted …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

The stochastic frontier analysis is employed to investigate efficiency of publicly listed Australian banks over the … period 1985-2008. The results suggest that technical, cost and profit efficiency of Australian banks have improved over our … sample span. Large banks have attained a higher level of cost efficiency but lower level of technical efficiency compared to …

This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of …. Sophisticated performance measurement techniques would be required to provide useful insights about the effectiveness, efficiency …-parametric, mathematical programming technique, to estimate profit efficiency (PE) of 66 Indian banks (26 public, 19 private and 21 foreign …

, the efficiency of higher education institutions is increasingly coming into focus. Since the 2000s, more and more studies … on the efficiency of German universities have been published. While the research focus and the applied methods differ … aim of this paper was to show differences and commonalities in efficiency between universities of applied sciences and …

. While previous work has attempted to study what determines the efficiency, the focus was put on various factors that were … of 31 provinces between 2000 and 2017, we estimated a Tobit model, with the efficiency of public spending calculated by … data envelopment analysis (DEA). The efficiency of public spending is partially determined by the structure of the spending …