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Bayesian approach to disentangling technical and environmental productivity
Malikov, Emir; Kumbhakar, Subal; Tsionas, Efthymios G. - In: Econometrics : open access journal 3 (2015) 2, pp. 443-465
index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …
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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
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Measuring the comprehensive wage effect of changes in unit labor cost
Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-12
Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competitiveness of industries and countries. As labor compensation is wage multiplied by hours worked or number of people employed, it is easy to show that ULC is wage divided by labor productivity....
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Stuck in the slow lane : undoing traffic composition biases in the measurement of trucking productivity
Boyer, Kenneth Duncan; Burks, Stephen V. - In: Southern economic journal 75 (2009) 4, pp. 1220-1237
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Human capital and rural development policy : evidence from European FADN regions
Maietta, Ornella Wanda; De Devitiis, Biagia; … - In: Bio-based and applied economics 8 (2019) 3, pp. 239-259
This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture from 1986 to 2010. The empirical analysis employs farm data sourced from the Farm Accountancy Data Network Standard Results as well as Eurostat's information on farm holders'...
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The efficiency of the European non-life insurance : CEO power, macroeconomic, and market characteristics impact
Bahloul, Walid; Bouri, Abdelfettah - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-13
A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … research is to analyze the relationship between efficiency, measured by the cost function using the stochastic frontier …
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Does efficiency promote competitiveness of the insurance industry?
Hui Shan Lee; Cheng, Fan Fah; Nasir, Annuar Md.; Nazrul … - In: Journal of business economics and management 19 (2018) 4, pp. 566-591
This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful … insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P … to estimating provisions for outstanding claims, as this factor is negatively influencing the efficiency of Takaful …
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Sustainable metamorphosis : examining sustainability transformation into value of financial institutions
Lapinskaitė, Indrė; Skvarciany, Viktorija - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 5, pp. 923-938
landscape. This research aims to evaluate the efficiency of converting sustainable development outcomes, quantified through ESG …. The results reveal that only one financial institution has an efficiency score of 1, signifying a notable efficiency level …. Most financial institutions in the dataset possess efficiency scores (represented by theta) below 0.1, indicating a …
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Efficiency, market structure and performance of the insurance industry in an emerging economy
Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Ohemeng, Williams; Boro, Ernest … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14
This paper investigated the structure of the market, efficiency and performance (profitability) of the general … Herfindahl Hirschman Index and the concentration ratio to measure the SCP in addition to computing efficiency as a measure for …
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Profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks : a new index approach
Nahm, Daehoon; Ha Thu Vu - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 45-65
In this paper, we measure and analyse profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks using a newly developed …, and to some degree technical efficiency change, whereas scale efficiency change contributes adversely to productivity … growth. We also investigate the effects of the capital-adequacy and deposit-taking regulations on profit efficiency, and find …
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