potential gains-in terms of freeing up resources and delivering better health outcomes-from improving health spending efficiency …? How has efficiency evolved over the past decade? What can policymakers do to boost it? This paper estimates health … spending efficiency across countries using bias-corrected data envelopment analysis and finds sizable differences in efficiency …

economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …

This study assesses the determinants of banking system efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and asks what, besides … the degree of efficiency, explains the low level of financial development in the region. It uses stochastic frontier … analysis to measure efficiency and a generalized method of moments system to explain financial development. SSA banks are found …

This paper examines the role of bank capital in decision-making by bank holding companies (BHCs) in the United States …

The recent fnancial crisis highlighted the role of Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) in exacerbating the crisis and in …

Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency …

commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 …) the effects of prudential tightening on the efficiency of banks vary across different prudential norms; and (3 …