impact of government capital expenditure on production efficiency in the G7 countries. Two models are estimated with …) database. The paper applies stochastic production frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate each country's yearly efficiency and to …. Furthermore, the results show that the estimated average technical efficiency over the study period was 93.4% for the HDI model …

The aim of this paper is to measure and analyze the relative efficiency of commercial banks in two developing countries … 2015 to 2019. Outliers are identified and excluded by using the Banker and Gifford (1988) super efficiency procedure, and … the BCC output-oriented model is rerun with a sample of 11 Macedonian and 19 Croatian bank. We provide relative efficiency …

changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on GDP and on the attainment of the government …'s objectives. The first challenge that stakeholders face is measuring efficiency. This paper attempts such quantification and has … two major parts. The first part estimates efficiency as the distance between observed input-output combinations and an …

Economies (EMDEs) which merits research into the effect of financial development on the efficiency and sustainability of the … efficiency, and sustainability. Also, these studies are confined to the impact of financial development either on the efficiency …-specific factors which significantly affect the efficiency and sustainability of the MFIs. For this purpose, the study first determines …

influence on systemic financial stability. Thus, understanding their efficiency, performance, and sustainability is paramount … for policymakers and stakeholders alike. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative efficiency of insurance … outputs. Our findings underscore the fluctuating efficiency levels within North Macedonia's insurance sector. Notably, the …

We analyzed the efficiency of the insurance industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the period from 2015 to 2019 in … order to identify good and bad practices, sources of inefficiency and to propose guidelines for the necessary efficiency … improvements based on the results. Efficiency measurement was performed using the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …

productive efficiency of vineyards. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the productive efficiency of wine-growing farms and the … are determinant of its productive efficiency. To achieve this purpose, we use a database collected by face-to-face surveys … vineyard area. To analyse the productive efficiency of the farms, we use the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The results …

on evaluating fertilizer use efficiency at the farm level whereas little is known about the technical efficiency of … Effects model (GTRE), this paper estimates and decomposes the technical efficiency of Chinese fertilizer-producing firms …. Results show technical efficiency increased from 0.883 in 1998 to 0.930 in 2007, with an average of 0.898. The growth rate of …

This study investigates the efficiency growth of advanced technology-generating sectors within the European Union (EU … production efficiency due to high competition and market specificity. A comparative analysis of EU economies showed a lower level … of production efficiency in catching-up economies. Nevertheless, these economies contributed to the shift of the …

spending efficiency in developing Asia. Using data envelopment analysis, we find that East Asia has the highest average output …- and input-oriented technical efficiency scores among the subregions. Universal health coverage service coverage index and … population density have the strongest effect on health spending efficiency. In addition, using the novel framework of macro …