This paper studies the relative performance of domestic and foreign banks in the Latin American and Caribbean banking industry. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to compute technical efficiency scores for the years 2001 and 2013. Our main contribution is twofold. On the one hand, we assess...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate that, under certain assumptions, the influence of unemployment benefits (UB) on the efficiency in labour allocation depends crucially on the way UB affect Job search. Individual Job search is influenced by UB in a twofold way: decreasing search intensity...

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms producers of wooden goods, in presence of non desirable outputs. As main results, we find that the consideration of several restrictions on the expansion of non desirable outputs...

The target of this paper is to review some of the concepts most frequently used to measure economic diversity at regional level, exposing their base assumptions in order to illustrate an alternative approach developed from the financial literature on efficient portfolio selection. Regional real...

This paper analizes the main aspects that have helpedto shape the process of mechanization of valencian agriculture. Thetime path of severa1 mechanization indexes have been taken intoaccount for the 1961-88 period and differences in machinery use atsubregional level have also been stu-died. A...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the productive change that has taken place in the postal sector of the European Union. Using the Malmquist index, the productivity growth of European postal operators is broken up into two factors: the variations in efficiency levels and the technical change....