In a stochastic frontier setting, we examine technical efficiency in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Evidence … technical efficiency profiles. The MENA have been characterized by increasing economic efficiency over time but with marked … for related studies of development technical efficiency. …

We propose a novel, multilaterally consistent productivity approach-based indicator to assess the international price … attention has been paid to an appropriate selection of price and productivity data in levels as opposed to indices, and to the …

In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in … emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement issues, we compute efficiency scores and … rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …

economies. We also assess the efficiency of public spending in redistributing income by using a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis …

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub …, distribution, and stabilisation. The input and output efficiency of public sectors across countries is then measured via a non …-parametric production frontier technique. JEL Classification: C14, H50 …

In a cross section of OECD countries we replace the macroeconomic production function by a production possibility … frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods … 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, one output: GDP per worker; three inputs: human capital, public physical capital per worker and …

based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator …

investment, innovation). The paper addresses the approaches used to assess the performance and efficiency of public spending, and …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …