less efficient banks. This result is in line with the efficiency hypothesis. -- Cross-border bank acquisitions ; latent …

This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … their superior scale efficiency. However, this superior efficiency did not necessarily result in superior profits. Our … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …

infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US … economic prosperity and rural population aid vaccine administration and delivery efficiency. Delivery efficiency improves in … health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …

This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies …

We examine the relationship between public sector efficiency and government spending, to assess public resource … outcomes across various public sector performance (PSP) indicators. We compute government spending efficiency using Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to subsequently assess the relationship between efficiency and the growth rate of public expenditure …

opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the …-off between efficiency and equality of opportunity in human capital formation. …