The aim of this study is to analyse the efficiency of companies forming collective brands in the experience goods … sector. The central hypothesis is that collective brands have a positive impact on the efficiency of their member companies … itself. The methodology applied to test these hypotheses is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency …

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms …

based on linearprogramming approaches for efficiency measurement. We provide an application to Spanishmunicipalities, which …

data panel and with the aim of checking on the possibility that each firm has a particular level of efficiency -captured by …

. Three different stochastic measures of efficiency are used (based on three alternative distributional assumptions for …" hypothesis since, even though efficiency is the main determinant of profitability, market power (as reflected in a market share … variable), also affects profitability. The results obtained also show that market share is an inadequate proxy for efficiency …

versus efficiency, presenting as its main contribution the use of a direct measurement of efficiency. This measurement is … furthermore, the results allow us to reject in most cases the pure hypothesis of efficiency, as although efficiency does …

new markets. The aim of this paper is to analyse the efficiency and the credit risk of the banks of the most important … adjustments for risk are important in the case of profit efficiency but not in the case of cost efficiency. La implantación del …

applying for grants. Finally, the third objective of this study, is to evaluate the efficiency of the Spanish scholarship … aids to study presents serious limitations on equity as well as on efficiency. Los objetivos de este trabajo son, en primer …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the efficiency of the travel agencies operatingin Spain, and to examine the … determining factors of such efficiency, in terms of verticalintegration, market concentration, size and performance. The … methodology employed is based on different techniques for the measurement of the efficiency (stochastic frontier production …