public and private utilities' efficiency …While the link between the ownership and productive efficiency of firms has been discussed extensively, no consensus … flexible production model to test for efficiency differences associated with ownership types while allowing the production to …

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 …

positions in global value chains. In this paper we analyse the relative contribution of R&D to the efficiency (productivity) on …; physical capital shows the opposite effect. The distribution of efficiency across industries shows remarkably different … share of labour with tertiary education at the national level showed a strong positive correlation with efficiency, while …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

financial) triggers less bank efficiency in low income countries than in their middle income counterparts. These findings …