This paper compares the efficiency of Indian banking industry over two time periods, 1999–2003 and 2004–2008. Ownership effects in determining the efficiency are also compared in this paper. A Cobb–Douglas stochastic frontier model is adopted in order to estimate the bank...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset on top European R&D investors over the period...

The paper investigates the relationships between technological regimes and firm-level productivity performance, and it explores how such a relationship differs in different Schumpeterian patterns of innovation. The analysis makes use of a rich dataset containing data on innovation and other...

In the article, the author presents Data Envelopment Analysis, which is a method for measuring relative technical efficiency. The idea of DEA method is illustrated by a simple example, where objects characterized by one input and one output only are considered. Next, a the basic DEA model (CCR...

Classic interpretation of the isoquant is well-known, e.g., the output isoquant informs us about the quantities of inputs that are needed to produce a given amount of output, assuming that the production technology is given. The article is an attempt to formulate an alternative interpretation of...

This paper studies the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market. The study takes advantage of recent developments in the stochastic frontier techniques and estimates the matching function for Tunisia using disaggregated data. We include control variables as...

This study assesses the efficiency analysis of the 25 Taiwan-based life insurance companies during the period 2003 to 2006 by examining three different subgroups, namely, old domestic companies, new domestic companies and foreign companies. The primary goal of the present study is to compare two...