This study analyzes the influence of the environmental conditions on the levels of technical efficiency of the activity … the environment which, using Tobit analysis, could be considered statistically as variables that explain efficiency. The … performance of the service analysed. Although, individually, the changes that any environmental factor causes in the efficiency …

efficiency that arises when individuals are myopic. We find that for extreme values of the cost of establishing a mutual … insurance agreement, myopic and farsighted agents form the same risk-sharing networks. For intermediate costs, farsighted agents …

This paper examines the efficiency effects of foreign bank entry on domestic banks in sub- Saharan Africa during the …-South and regional South-South banks on domestic banks. As domestic banks invest in foreign technologies, their overhead costs … increase in the short-run. Non-regional South-South banks seem to have little effect on the efficiency of domestic banks. …