-deposit spread suggests that the levels of contestability and efficiency are low. A more in-depth analysis using stochastic frontier … and data envelopment analyses confirm that the efficiency of the Colombian commercial banking system is low compared to … potential determinants of efficiency and contestability for a sample of the 24 countries over the period 2004 – 2013. This …

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …’ productivity growth. Increasing local public administration efficiency from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile would raise …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …