analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on productivity and efficiency have hardly been studied. We use a … farmers in Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels increases farm productivity in terms of meta-technology ratios by 45 …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … evaluation of banks, i.e., the measurement of the productivity and research results of previous authors’ studies of the European …

We use an industrial organisation approach to quantify the size of Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) for euro … period. In addition, we observe that Total Factor Productivity growth for the median euro area bank decreased from around 2 …. Given the need to boost productivity and enhance profitability in the euro area banking sector, these findings suggests that …

This paper introduces a new parametric measure of productivity change using the hyperbolic distance function. More …, it shows measurements of three components of productivity change. The first component, technical efficiency change, is … investigate productivity change of the Vietnamese banking sector during the 2000–2006 period. The empirical results show that the …

describe and analyze the principal methodologies that have been developed for measuring efficiency and productivity, defining … efficiency and productivity measurement in insurance …

By applying the non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI), this article attempts to investigate productivity … post-crisis period of 2001-2004. Our results suggest that Malaysian NBFIs exhibited productivity regress during the post … banks' productivity regress was mainly due to technological regress, the finance companies, on the other hand, exhibited …

We analyse the drivers of total factor productivity of Spanish banks from early 2000, including the last financial … crisis and the post-crisis period. This allows us to study changes in productivity following a major restructuring process in …, productivity declined after the height of the crisis, though large banks were less affected.We also find that risk, capital levels …