charters from episodes of financial distress, and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of commercial banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of …

for a given output) – and the second is cost efficiency, the degree to which costs are minimised for a given level of … output. Cost efficiency implies technical efficiency but also allocative efficiency – choosing a cost minimising mix of … inputs. We explain why we prefer to measure cost efficiency, both in terms of what governments and regulators are interested …

ILO pub. On the job training, Africa - apprenticeship, legal aspects, alternating training, cost, efficiency. …

are behind the differences in technical and economic efficiency in water use. Furthermore, we have compared productivity … in the cost of water; we have also determined the employment generated by irrigation agriculture in different areas. …