We study the construction of confidence intervals for efficiency levels of individual firms in stochastic frontier …

Efficiency measurement has been one of the most extensively explored areas of health services research over the past … two decades. Despite this attention, few studies have examined whether a provider’s efficiency varies on a monthly …. Using a quarterly panel of general, acute-care hospitals from Washington State, we find that hospital efficiency does vary …

This paper aims at investigating the effects of concentration on competition and cost efficiency of the French audit … market. Competition is measured with the Rosse-Panzar model, while cost efficiency is estimated with stochastic frontier … approach. Cost efficiency levels are estimated at around 75% with greater efficiency for Big-Four firms, while the nature of …

This paper investigates whether financial intermediary development influences macroeconomic technical efficiency on a … associated with more efficiency. However we find strong evidence that this relationship is conditional on the level of economic … development. The lower economic development the weaker is the impact of financial development on efficiency. That impact can even …

provide gains in growth by favoring competition and efficiency on financial markets. Our paper aims to check whether financial … integration has taken place on the banking markets, by investigating the convergence in banking efficiency for European Union … countries. We measure cost efficiency of banks from 10 EU countries between 1994 and 2005 with the stochastic frontier approach …

We Embed an Efficiency Wage View of the Labor Market a la Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) Into the Standard Hecksher …