The article investigates the impact and efficiency of bureaucracy on the development of small and medium …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

this research is to estimate the efficiency of higher education in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …) in 40 European countries. The method used to estimate efficiency is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with output … used. Results indicate that the average technical efficiency of the 40 European countries is relatively high and equal to 0 …

to assess the efficiency of profit management for banks has been developed. This approach, is named as Profit Identity … and second to assess the profit performance efficiency with the application of Profit Identity Approach. The study reveals …

We analyse overall cost efficiency in Spanish local governments during the crisis period (2008-2015). To this end, we … first consider some of the most popular nonparametric methods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment … estimator proposed by Kneip et al. (Econom Theory 24(6):1663-1697, 2008). Second, to compare the four methods and choose the …

, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student … that educational efficiency in Uruguayan high schools significantly dropped in nine percentage points between 2009 and 2012 …. In this vein, our findings also show positive effects on public schools’ efficiency of providing the responsibility in …

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a … energy generation technology, but natural gas fired power plants clearly have the highest efficiency. Furthermore, the …

In this paper, we measure the technical efficiency for local electricity distribution firms in Sweden, and in … particular how small- and micro-scale generation affects efficiency scores. Using two-stage data envelope analysis to model the … technical efficiency and a double bootstrap approach to estimate the determinants of inefficiencies, we show that firms are …

unintended high level of non-performing assets (NPAs). It uncovers the linkage between NPAs and banking efficiency by integrating … NPAs into the measurement of bank efficiency to provide a holistic efficiency profile of the Indian banking sector. We … first stage, and the empirical results identify an efficiency gap of 16.2% due to NPAs in the Indian banking sector for the …