In this paper, our research question that could analyze how efficiency in Swedish financial enterprises has changed …) efficiency estimators. We predict cost function by employing panel stochastic frontier approach. These allow us to construct cost … efficiency. …

human capital measurement. The results confirmed that limited measurement and analysis of human capital efficiency in small …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on the productivity and efficiency of … labor productivity in IT-producing and IT-using industries. … IT has a positive and statistically significant effect on the productivity of manufacturing industries. It will be more …

and productivity. The results show that the average technical efficiency for this retail sector in the period under study …The main objective of this study is the identification of the explanatory factors on the differences in efficiency in … occurred in the 1999 - 2012 period. Moreover, a preliminary analysis is carried out to study levels and evolution of efficiency …

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …

, the paper employs both different traditional profitability and productivity measures and a non-parametric technique to … estimate efficiency as indicators of performance. Further, several parametric and non-parametric tests are used to analyse the …

emphasize human capital development to stem declining labor productivity and also increasing expenditures on R&D to promote …. This sector contributes to about 37% GDP and employs about 80% of the labor force. Recent data indicate a decline in bank … 2007 - 2014, we analyze the performance of this sector by applying several measures of productivity. We find average …

, service productivity management is not as much investigated as productivity in manufacturing. In this paper a literature based … and empirically confirmed approach to a comprehensive description of service productivity is provided. Existing service … productivity models are evaluated according to a literature based developed evaluation scheme and the results of 32 semi …

envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance of this nonparametric approach to macroeconomic efficiency analysis and …

index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency … the traditional (desirable-output-oriented) technical productivity and the undesirable-output-oriented environmental, or … so-called "green", productivity. To measure the latter, we derive a Solow-type Divisia environmental productivity index …