Purpose – The study aims to investigate the relationship between competition and efficiency. Using bank-level data for … Indian banks, relationship between competition and efficiency is examined by applying the Granger causality test for the … competition. Data envelopment analysis technique is applied for measuring efficiency in the Indian banking system along with the …

use efficiency of government colleges in Punjab. Design/methodology/approach The study covered 15 general degree … CCR model and BCC model. Findings The technical efficiency results suggest that colleges analyzed in this study are … operating at a moderate level of efficiency relative to each other. Most of the colleges were found to be inefficient during the …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the moderating effect of efficiency and non-market capability in the … improve service to customers. Such activities run a company aimed at achieving efficiency with emphasis on the efficiency of …. Originality/value Originality for this paper shows the moderating effect of efficiency and non-market capability in the …

Purpose This study aims to consider the effect of financial (banking) freedom and competition on bank efficiency … both competition (market power) and bank cost efficiency using the same stochastic frontier framework. Subsequently, Tobit … between competition and bank efficiency. Findings The results show that increase in market power (less competition) leads to …

regression model is used following the evaluation of efficiency score for hotels using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … international attraction and market competition, have a direct influence on hotel efficiency. Second, hotel efficiency depends on … the general manager, education level of the board staff and number of managers influence hotel efficiency. Finally …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate technical efficiency obtained from both data envelopment analysis …/methodology/approach – A bootstrap method is used to provide statistical precision of the DEA estimator. Technical efficiency is modeled as a … approaches indicate that among other things, technical efficiency is significantly influenced by primary education and regional …

Purpose The paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency of African Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and examine if … analysis (SFA) assuming that the translog production functions to estimate the technical efficiency of 134 Microfinance … efficiency for the sample institutions is 0.489, which is quite low and suggests that on average, African MFIs are achieving only …

) and technical efficiency for both labour intensive and all manufacturing industries during the pre- and post …

method enables the decomposition of productivity changes into technical and efficiency changes, and hence enables one to … determine if changes in productivity are due to electricity reform (efficiency gains) or due to autonomous technological … productivity and efficiency, by applying the DEA method to a time series data for a single industry. Additionally, the analysis of …

Purpose How can efficiency of a welfare scheme be measured? The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficiency … evaluation model, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) implementation efficiency model (MIEM), to … (DEA) to compare relative efficiency of MGNREGA implementing states. It uses policy implementation process as a central …