, labour efficiency and wage level, rather than in entities’ profitability. Compared to the dispersion among firms within the …

’ ownership and operation had been significantly changed in order to improve efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to …-by-year productivity. Lastly, regression analysis examines how bank characteristics and ownership structure affect productivity efficiency … banks. The low efficiency is primarily due to scale inefficiency, rather than PTE. In addition, ownership structure impacts …

This study explores the impact of ownership types on efficiency of Italian water utilities. Theories and evidence have … to the debate about the impact of ownership structure on efficiency by including the effect of size and geographical … location combining efficiency (obtained via nonparametric methods) with cluster analysis. The results show that ownership does …

for endogeneity of ownership, we find that foreign ownership markedly improved the efficiency of firms, whereas domestic … private ownership did not; domestic firms are not catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms …Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries starts approaching that of firms from …

property rights allocation on the economic efficiency of the management strategies is studied. …

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French … ownership regime and contractual practices are key determinants of performances.To test this proposition, we use an original … frontier methodology.The econometric results corroborate our proposition: the technical efficiency of urban public transport …