population density, unemployment, homicide rates and property concentration have a lower efficiency score, whereas departments …

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 …

This paper analyzes the technological efficiency of companies in the European Union (EU). Our extensive database covers … age is negligible, the higher the debt the greater the efficiency, bigger companies are less efficient, and a medium …-level concentration of the market benefits companies. Majority ownership, in contrast, does not lead to higher efficiency, but a …

In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more than 190 …,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm efficiency evolves over time, and how firm … efficiency is determined by ownership structure. We employ a panel version of a stochastic production frontier model for the …

The aim of this research is to study the relationship between capital structure and the efficiency in both state and … the relationship between capital structure and the banks efficiency. The sample research includes 18 banks during the … interbank effects and there is a meaningful relationship between the efficiency and the debt ratio in the first hypothesis and …

efficiency gap of around 40% against European best practice – in line with engineering-based evidence. More widely, the paper …