Considering the evidence that China's five largest state-owned banks (the Big Five) suffer from low cost efficiency …, this paper decomposes overall efficiency of Chinese banks into: persistent efficiency and transient efficiency components …. Low persistent efficiency reflects structural problems, while low transient efficiency is associated with short …

Considering the evidence that China's five largest state-owned banks (the Big Five) suffer from low cost efficiency …, this paper decomposes overall efficiency of Chinese banks into: persistent efficiency and transient efficiency components …. Low persistent efficiency reflects structural problems, while low transient efficiency is associated with short …

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

Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of … network to third parties. To estimate the effects of reforms on railroad efficiency, we investigate a new World Bank panel … data set that covers many EU countries over a period of 20 years. We compare the passenger traffic efficiency of national …

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 …

ITransition started by a sudden collapse of corporate efficiency, as one important element of the transformational … recession. It was followed by a consolidation period, with rapidly increasing efficiency and improving returns to scale. During … translated into economic growth. This consolidation period ended in 1995-6, after that mean firm level efficiency only changed …

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. …

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 …