efficiency terms, one for each firm.This paper identifies the latter correction terms. …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …

Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because … they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in …

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 analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Envelopment Analysis) bootstrap approach to calculate relative efficiency measures … municipalities score lower in terms of technical efficiency than self-providing and contracting municipalities. The scope for …

This study explains the differences and variances in the efficiency scores of the Vietnamese banking sector retrieved … mainly based on frontier efficiency measurements, which essentially are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic … efficiency, whilst the opposite is true for the data type, and sample size. …

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

We stress some efficiency aspects of monopolistic competition justifying it on account of its tendency to innovate and … the questionable excess capacity paradigm. Some further efficiency aspects revealed are product variety and transaction …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …

envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance of this nonparametric approach to macroeconomic efficiency analysis and …