We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of 'economics …' and 'social science, mathematical methods' in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across … industrial sectors in each country. We find strong evidence of a positive relationship between firm technical efficiency levels … between firm efficiency and size is also found to be positive, suggesting big industrial firms in the former planned economies …

some light on the determinants of bank risk-taking and analyse its relationship with capital and efficiency in Japanese …

market economy. It is widely believed that competition has a positive effect on efficiency, but the theoretical and empirical … support is quite scarce. The objective of this paper is to investigate the link between competition and efficiency for the … production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to scale due …

This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …

In this paper we discuss cost and profit efficiency on the Colombian financial market in the period 1989-2003, using … stochastic frontier efficiency analysis. During the period, the cost efficient frontier deteriorates, but profit efficient … frontier is relatively stable. We found significant difference when we compare the efficiency scores among different types of …

We study the construction of confidence intervals for efficiency levels of individual firms in stochastic frontier …

This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …

This paper is concerned with the estimation of an employment relationship and employment efficiency under production … is used to estimate the parameters of the model. Estimation of industry and time-varying employment efficiency is also … considered. Employment efficiency is defined in terms of the distance from the employment frontier defined as minimum employment …