bootstrap DEA method, which absorbs the effects of possible integration barriers in the measurement of efficiency. Afterwards … for convergent clusters in banking efficiency. Findings - Our main findings show that the bank efficiency of the US is …-specific factors that affect the efficiency of European and Eurozone banks. Moreover, recent literature does not compare the …

industries create differences in efficiencies. Since efficiency is a valuable measurement to indicate the ability of an … cost efficiencies in order to find new evidence given the mixed results in previous literature. Profit efficiency is also … compared with cost efficiency based on a parametric approach. The results regarding cost and profit efficiency conforms to …

the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate and compare the relative performance of the 50 SGs in a single measure … performance efficiency. In particular, they show that limiting harmful exposures by timely investments in prevention is far more … different states, depending on the level of efficiency with which the SG operates during the funding period …

This paper examines prediction of U.S. bank failure with a probit model that uses bias-corrected technical efficiency … efficiency, together with other CAMEL factors (i.e., capital adequacy, asset quality, earnings quality, and liquidity), is … significant for predicting bank failure. This measure of managerial quality allows more accurate prediction of failure than other …

would be wrong and (ii) how revenue and cost efficiencies contribute to profit efficiency. Using data from U.S. commercial ….5% is due to revenue inefficiency and 4.7% to cost inefficiency. Cost efficiency weighs more than revenue efficiency in … estimated profit efficiency. However, compared with cost inefficiency, revenue inefficiency affects more overall profitability …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case … of environmental efficiency and on sector specificity. This confirms the usefulness of this method for studying the … environmental economics realm, in order to investigate structural and efficiency factors at the level of within country …

The measure proposed in this paper is a new nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) scheme, the hybrid measure …, for determining efficiency in the presence of radial and nonradial inputs or outputs. Further extension of the scheme … occurred to address nonseparable desirable and undesirable outputs. Applying the model to measure the overall efficiency of U …