Research background: The importance of the financial sector for the real economy has increased as there has been a transition from industrial capitalism to financial capitalism in recent years. The increasing importance of the financial sector is referred to as financialisation, and it is...

This paper asseses the efficiency of the State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) in Asia-Pacific and European regions by adapting a non-parametric analysis, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute technical efficiency (TE). There are two TE models available namely constant returns-to-scale (CRS) and...

In performance analysis with tools such as data envelopment analysis, calculations of scale properties of the frontier points are studied using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. When the production process is a bit complicated, the calculation needs to be modifed. Most existing...

As an important component of the national innovation system, universities have received widespread attention in recent years regarding their Scientific and Technological Innovation (STI) efficiency. This study considers a new perspective for viewing talent cultivation, scientific research, and...

This paper sought to establish the linkages between bank performance and real sector productivity. We use data for five East African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) for the period 2014-2022. We initially deploy the traditional panel fixed effects regression and...