in the efficiency and productivity of U.S. banks between 1985 and 2004. We find that larger banks experienced larger … efficiency and productivity gains than small banks, consistent with the presumption that recent changes in regulation and …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes … investigated using non-parametric techniques. To analyse efficiency trends, a DEA window analysis is conducted on publicly …