In this study we examine the potential determinants of technical efficiency for the Tunisian commercial banking sector over the period of 1995-2017. First, we estimate banking technical efficiency with a radial and non-radial bootstrap data envelopment analysis. For the radial technique, we use...

This paper considers the maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic frontier production function with an interval outcome. We derive an analytical formula for calculating the likelihood function of the interval stochastic frontier models. Monte Carlo experiments reveal that the finite sample...

This paper examines inefficiencies of Bangladesh banking industry using the stochastic frontier production function model and the time invariant cross-sectional data. The measure of ith bank technical efficiency indicates that the efficiency of Bangladesh commercial banks lies between 12.7 and...

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data envelopment analysis on a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2000 to construct two alternative PSE indicators that reflect the governmental goals of economic...

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data envelopment analysis on a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2000 to construct two alternative PSE indicators that reflect the governmental goals of economic...