This paper considered Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Model to analyse technical efficiency and their determinants of groundnut farmers in Ghana. The paper used a cross-sectional data of three-hundred (300) observations to obtain posterior distributions of the farmers’ technical efficiency...

This paper investigates the effect of intellectual capital (IC) and its components on the efficiency of Vietnamese commercial banks from 2007 to 2019 using the two-step Data Envelopment Analysis approach. Banks' efficiency scores are firstly estimated, while the relationship between IC and bank...

Since 2011, the Vietnamese banking system has performed many M&A deals. Some small banks which had weak competitiveness and experienced operating activities risk were on the verge of bankruptcy, and had been acquired by potential financial institutions. Although M&A transactions are known for...

Purpose: The impact of the Covid-19 outbreak since March 2020 has put Malaysia's logistics sector in a contrasting reality to other sectors, as during the implementation of the movement control order (MCO), this sector was declared as providing essential service and allowed to operate in order...

Based on the data set of 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2018, this paper decomposed the two-sided effects of environmental regulation on energy efficiency and calculated their net effects by using the two-tier stochastic frontier model. First, empirical research shows that environmental...