concerning the efficiency of business cycle fluctuations, and it provides an unsatisfactory explanation of labor market and …

achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …

. Problems of resource use efficiency, role of markets, inter-linkages between markets and the emergence of institutions have all …

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and … average efficiency scores. …