This study investigates the impact of social pension insurance on the efficiency of household financial portfolios … significantly enhances the efficiency of household financial portfolios, partly through the channels of risk attitude and …

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from …

issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among … by value-added and capital stock. Speed of adjustment and labour use optimality and efficiency show much greater … the efficiency of labour usage. On average there is shortage of labour compared to firms? own optimal level, while over …

longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … firm efficiency occurs across almost all industries and firm types: large or small; state or private; domestic or foreign …-owned. Changes in firm ownership type have no impact on firm efficiency. Rather, competitive pressures that sort out inefficient …