The aim of this paper is to assess the efficiency of a set of 62 precious metal mutual funds (PMMFs) and to explain … performance differences between funds using weighted additive data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression, respectively …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology is used in this study for a comparison of the dynamic efficiency of … European countries over the last decade. Moreover, efficiency analysis is used to determine where resources are distributed … efficiently and/or were used efficiently/inefficiently under factors of competitiveness extracted from factor analysis. DEA …

This paper investigates how the financial and social efficiency of firms influence the extent of the voluntary …-2019. The financial and social efficiency, which is analogous to the technical efficiency of production theory and analyses both … sustainability and outreach, respectively, was estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The panel data analysis was completed …

This paper examines the effect of financial development on countries’ production efficiency levels. By applying a … probabilistic framework it develops robust (Order-m) time-dependent conditional nonparametric frontier estimators in order to … measure 87 countries’ production efficiency levels over the period 1970–2014. In order to examine the effect of time and …

Nowadays, countries are more concerned with the improvement of effectiveness and efficiency in public sector activities … efficiency, technical efficiency, productivity, and the determinants factor of implementing sustainable development policy of the … five major municipalities in North Cyprus by conducting DEA and Tobit analyses during the period from 2004 to 2018 …

This paper aims to analyze the determinants of profitability and bank efficiency in the Iberian Peninsula. To achieve … terms of profitability and efficiency, in the Iberian Peninsula, is influenced by internal management variables, but also by … positive and negative non-linear relationship between bank size and their levels of profitability and efficiency, respectively. …

The research interest in bank profitability and efficiency is linked to the economic situation and an important issue … are the main factors that can influence the performance and efficiency of 94 commercial listed banks from Eurozone …, on the profitability as a measure of bank performance. After that, through the value-based data envelopment analysis (DEA …

This paper documents a new series two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) modeling framework for mutual fund … performance evaluation in terms of operational and portfolio management efficiency that is implemented to a sample of precious … and in particular, they seem to be more inefficiently operated. The operational management efficiency is correlated with …

payments. This note examines the effect of this behavior on the efficiency of cash payments. The results are compared with the …