the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

corrected efficiency score correlates well with standard Growth Theory indicators. …

across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We …This paper examines how efficiency dynamics of Islamic and conventional banks compare and how they are converging … both steady state efficiency and the speed of convergence of Islamic and conventional banks are similar. A non …

evidence on the existence of different bank technologies in international banking with different response schedules to external …. Using bank level structural variables we determine four different profit and cost banking technologies in the data. Further … analysis indicates heterogeneity not only among the level of profit and cost efficiency, but also regarding the response of …

abilities and continual adoption of technology. Further, bank consolidation over the years seems to favor efficiency and …This paper seeks to evaluate efficiency and competition dynamics of the Kenyan banking sector for the period 2001 …-2017 using bank-level data for 37 commercial banks. To achieve this, the paper uses a three-step estimation approach; first, we …

the world's mean efficiency but has been decreasing over time. Further, there is evidence that prices have not moved … the role of market power and efficiency. We made use of pooled OLS regression with fixed effect model. For robustness, we … loss of about 0.433 percent of observed total loans. Encouragingly, cost efficiency in the banking system fits well within …