This paper estimates commercial banks’ efficiency in three relatively homogenous groups of countries with different … European integration and economic situation are visible also in banking efficiency. Thus we test the hypothesis that the higher … degree of European economic integration and economic development goes hand in hand with higher baking efficiency. Employing …

account we focus on its relation resources/products and on the concept of efficiency as one of the components of the … productivity, analyzing the period 1995-1999 in order to determine if the process of performing arts programming in the 'Circuït …

overall production frontier), technological catch up or efficiency changes(movement towards or away from the frontier …We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU … countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years …

movements and cargo traffic( both inputs to aircraft movements) .The airport production frontier at each point in time is …We work out the efficiency index of the Delhi Airport using monthly data(March 2000 through July 2004) of international … and total traffic of aircraft's, passengers & cargo movements . The study compares the Delhi Airport technical efficiency …

We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from … (shifts in the overall production frontier),technological catch up(movement towards or away from the frontier) and capital … accumulation(movement along the frontier).The overall production frontier is constructed using data envelopment analysis, requiring …

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical …

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … that are derived are not grounded in production theory, but the “payment for output” measure can be related to theory … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … that found in other economies. Large firms face far higher relative labour costs than small firms. If these factor price …

The Law of One Price (LoOP) states that all firms face the same prices for their inputs and outputs in the competitive … market equilibrium. This law has powerful implications for productive efficiency analysis, which have remained unexploited …). Utilizing the relation between the industry level and the firm level cost efficiency measures, we propose to apply a set of …

We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of … to study the performance of the proposed approach in controlled production environments. …