The article is the second in a series that will treat underlying conditions to generate a production function. The importance of production functions is fundamental to analyze and forecast the various indicators that highlights different aspects of the production process. How often forgets that...

Analysis carried out on macro-regions and counties reveals a disproportionate development of areas of Romania, with growth rates of GDP high in Bucharest-Ilfov, but and Gorj, Arad and Timis and very low, even negative in the nearby counties of Arges, Giurgiu Prahova and Teleorman indicating many...

This paper uses a two-stage data envelopment analysis to examine bank efficiency in Malaysia. In the first stage, we use meta-frontier technology to address bank heterogeneity-bank nature (Islamic vs. conventional banks) and bank ownership (local vs. foreign banks). Using a data set of 43...

The efficient use of inputs is indispensable in many developing countries, such as Ethiopia. This study assesses the level and determinants of technical efficiency of smallholder farmers using the true fixed effects (TFE) model. The TFE model separates inefficiency from unobserved heterogeneity....