This paper is devoted to econometric analysis of broadband adoption efficiency in EU member states. Stochastic frontier … models are widely used for efficiency estimation. We enhanced the stochastic frontier model by adding a spatial component … broadband adoption efficiency. We confirmed a negative impact of average prices of broadband services on broadband adoption in a …

The purpose is to investigate the efficiency levels of commercial domestic versus foreign banks in France by comparing … cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks operating in France using unbalanced sample, including 62 domestic and 40 … foreign banks over the period 2000-2007. We show that foreign banks exhibit higher cost and profit efficiency than domestic …

This study focuses on the technical and economic efficiency achieved in two local public service sectors … relative levels of efficiency according to different point of views: "business", "social" and "mixed" models. Anyway in this … focuses on the waste services; we estimated the economic and technological efficiency by comparing the city of Perugia to …

, Latvia, Lithuania) and estimation relative efficiency levels of regions. We apply a modern approach called Spatial Stochastic … attractors) having an effect on a number of visitors and estimate regions' efficiency values. We discover a significant level of …

competitiveness, we need an act of high educational quality and more efficiency. After defining the terms in which it operates … - competitiveness, quality, efficiency, educational act - it is, in part, a description of the state of the Romanian educational system …

market. The transition from a welfare system to a workfare increase the efficiency of the whole system. To this end, we …

and its three criteria (efficiency, adaptability and sustainability), and identifying indicators for assessing the … individual aspects and the overall competitiveness of farms. Next, it analyzes evolution and efficiency of farming organizations …

, etc. putting in question the notion of market efficiency and thereafter the predictability of assets returns. In the same …

achieve higher microeconomic efficiency and foster economic growth, whilst also aspiring to reduce public sector borrowing …

achieve higher microeconomic efficiency and foster economic growth, whilst also aspiring to reduce public sector borrowing …