Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency … efficiency gains are actually achieved by the firms entering into consolidation in India, which experienced large number of … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …

In the paper we investigate relative productivity levels and decompose productivity change for European agriculture … between 2004 and 2013. More specifically (1) we contribute to the debate whether agricultural Total Factor Productivity (TFP … this respect between the OMS and NMS and across member states. Finally, our estimations support the productivity …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different …

The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … significant gains in total factor productivity, and there is an upward trend in scale and allocative efficiency. More diversified …