This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful … insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P …-R) H-statistic method is used to evaluate the degree of competition. The findings indicate that the inefficiency in Takaful …

-affects efficiency and how firm size moderates this relationship. The mean efficiency scores by which the competitiveness output can be … optimized is 47.43%. The results suggest that the configuration of competitive pillars has important implications for efficiency … detrimental to efficiency. Also, a configuration of competitive pillars in which one or various competitive strengths prevail is …

This paper examines the effect of financial development on countries’ production efficiency levels. By applying a … measure 87 countries’ production efficiency levels over the period 1970–2014. In order to examine the effect of time and … domestic credit on countries’ production efficiency levels, a second-stage nonparametric econometric analysis is performed …

This paper explores the effects of innovation efficiency on technology gap and product diversity between a leading firm … and its competitor. Our analysis shows some interesting results: when innovation efficiency is sufficiently large and … firm will choose to reduce product diversity which intensifies price competition. We have also examined the role of …