The regulation of Australian private health insurance premiums is not conducive to restricting premium increases because the criteria used by the Commonwealth Government to help set premiums do not consider efficient service delivery. This article examines levels of efficiency and productivity...

The principal aim of this paper is to measure the efficiency of international airlines. We obtain measures of technical efficiency from stochastic frontier production functions which have been adjusted to account for environmental influences such as network conditions, geographical factors, etc....

The objective of this paper is to measure the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) from 1975 to 2005. Prior to 1995, TNB was essentially the sole electricity provider in Malaysia. However, since 1995 independent power producers (IPPs) have also begun generating...