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The effects of new technology on productivity : technological improvement and reallocation efficiency in the Japanese steelmaking industry

Kobayashi, Ryuki - 2022

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Firms' distance to the European productivity frontier

Añón Higon, María Dolores; Mañez Castillejo, Juan A.; … - In: Eurasian business review 12 (2022) 2, pp. 197-228

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How far the Indian banking sectors are efficient? : an empirical investigation

Maity, Sudarshan; Sahu, Tarak Nath - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 6 (2022) 3, pp. 413-431

banks and specific group, the present study may place itself as a unique inquiry in the domain of technical efficiency in …

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Productivity growth and technology gaps of the national systems of entrepreneurship : is there a convergence pattern between efficiency-driven and innovation-driven countries?

Mitropoulos, Panagiotis; Mitropoulos, Alexandros - In: International journal of innovation and technology … 19 (2022) 5, pp. 1-16

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Corporate social responsibility & firm efficiency : evidence from endogenous cost inefficiency stochastic frontier analysis

Tu Van Binh; Mulatu, Abay; Xu, Boying - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 55, pp. 6380-6392

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The effect of mergers and acquisitions on bank efficiency in Greece

Athanasoglou, Panayiotis P.; Brissimis, Sophocles N. - 2022

This paper studies the impact of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the cost and profit efficiency of banks in Greece. To this end, three methods have been applied: (i) analysis of developments in certain cost and profit indicators and their dispersion for bank groups according to their...

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Stochastic Frontier Modelling of Working Capital Efficiency Across Europe

Afrifa, Godfred; Tingbani, Ishmael; Adesina, Oluseyi Oluseun - 2022

This paper adopts the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to model working capital efficiency (WCE) on a sample of 6,170 European firms from 2009 to 2018. We find: (i) larger firms are more efficient with their working capital management (WCM) than smaller firms, (ii) higher cash holding...

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Estimation of Staff Use Efficiency : Evidence from the Hospitality Industry

Kumbhakar, Subal; Alemayehu, Fikru K. - 2022

We analyze the extent to which hospitality firms overuse staff using a production function model which considers firm heterogeneity and accounts for environmental variables in staff use. We decompose overall staff use inefficiency into transient and persistent inefficiency. To do this, we employ...

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460

This article studies socially optimal allocations, from the point of view of a benevolent social planner, in environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully rational and altruistic toward their descendants. Our...

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Assessment of port efficiency within Latin America

Miller, Kahuina; Hyodo, Tetsuro - In: Journal of shipping and trade 7 (2022), pp. 1-27

technical efficiency of the 19 major ports within the LAC from 2010 to 2018. The result indicates that, among the four (4) port … number of STS gantry cranes and berth length had the largest and most significant impact. Some ports with high technical … efficiency experienced TEU losses despite port infrastructural development and privatization. The findings also revealed that the …

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