This paper shows evidence on the influence of risk-taking on bank efficiency in emerging markets and identifies … inefficiency parameters to a sample of Colombian banks. The model provides accurate cost and profit efficiency estimates. The … effects of risk-taking on efficiency vary with size and affiliation. Large and foreign banks benefit more from higher exposure …

would be wrong and (ii) how revenue and cost efficiencies contribute to profit efficiency. Using data from U.S. commercial ….5% is due to revenue inefficiency and 4.7% to cost inefficiency. Cost efficiency weighs more than revenue efficiency in … estimated profit efficiency. However, compared with cost inefficiency, revenue inefficiency affects more overall profitability …

Estimating efficiencies of higher education institutions (HEIs) has become a central area of research in efficiency … analysis literature, particularly during the last two decades. Although the number of efficiency analysis researches in higher … between 2005 and 2010, belongs to the pioneering stream of researches conducting a comprehensive efficiency analysis on public …

We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier …

estimators. Overall we find an efficiency improvement, mainly driven by research, whereas teaching efficiency increases only in …

emissions from burning biomass. We apply the network DEA model to measure the revenue efficiency of forest production of Swedish … persistent economic inefficiencies of forest production in some counties, reducing the overall efficiency of Sweden's forest and …

The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … significant gains in total factor productivity, and there is an upward trend in scale and allocative efficiency. More diversified …

This paper examines the optimal control of CO2 emissions from a perspective of efficiency analysis. Several centralized …

This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German … differentiates between declining and growing regions. Regional and demographic factors explain part of the variation in efficiency … levels. Population density and branch penetration positively affect efficiency in growing regions. A negative impact of …

events, this paper provides new evidence of technical efficiency for 42 national and international airlines in 2006 using the … first stage, technical efficiency scores are estimated using a bootstrap DEA model. In the second stage, a truncated … regression is employed to quantify the economic drivers underlying measured technical efficiency. The results highlight the key …