analyzing the impact of insurers' scale of operations and group affiliation status on benefits, costs, and efficiency from the … regarding the assessment of what constitutes efficiency with respect to scale of operations and group affiliation status … some guidelines regarding the appropriate scale of operations for the scale efficiency, and informs discussion of mergers …

economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate … production units. The present paper investigates the effects of taxation on production efficiency, accounting for the … effect of this "tax induced organizational change" on production efficiency ultimately depends on the characteristics of the …

Empirical studies on efficiency of the governance system in agriculture are very rare. That is a consequence of both … theoretical and practical challenges. The criteria and approach for assessing social efficiency are still debated while … available. This is a first attempt for a comprehensive empirical study on the efficiency of the system of agrarian governance in …

deregulation and the succeeding changes on efficiency of the Japanese life insurance industry using a Stochastic Input Distance … efficiency difference between mutual and stock life insurers has been getting larger since deregulation. Third, there is not much … difference of efficiency between foreign insurers and domestic insurers. We also find that efficiency of life insurers has …

This paper analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

This paper proposes an efficiency analysis of the major European incumbent firms in the fixed telecommunications sector …. The non-parametric approach, that has been adopted here, expresses the efficiency according to a directional distance … measure, allowing to consider the different nature of outputs categories, according to their technological content. Efficiency …