In this paper, we attempt to determine whether the life-cycle income (LCI) hypothesis can explain movements in the national savings rate using the panel data of countries and the semi-nonparametric approach. While relating movements in the population density function to movements in the national...

Two-stage data envelopment analysis (2-DEA) is commonly used in productive efficiency analysis to estimate the effects of operational conditions and practices on performance. In this method the DEA efficiency estimates are regressed on contextual variables representing the operational...