Economic theory suggests that competitive pressures will impact on organisational efficiency. In recent years … efficiency of Australian and New Zealand public universities and to investigate the impact of competition for students from … overseas on efficiency. Output distance functions are estimated using panel data for the period 1995-2002 for Australia and …

The paper examines how hospital cost efficiency has reacted to extensive horizontal integrations of hospitals and rapid … growth of managed care in the US health care industry. Cost efficiency is estimated by using panel data approaches to relax … over time is associated with greater hospital efficiency, and higher market concentration is positively associated with …

Although the allocative efficiency benefits of competition are a tenet of microeconomic theory, the relation between … competition and technical efficiency is less well understood. Neoclassical models of profit-maximization subsume static cost …-minimizing behavior regardless of market competitiveness, but agency models of managerial behavior suggest possible scope for competition …

In this paper, we aim to explore the causal relationship among the bank efficiency, competition, and concentration in …–2018. Banking efficiency is measured by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), while the level of competition is measured by the Boone … among these variables. Results indicate the presence of a significant effect of banking efficiency on banking competition …