The aim of this work is to study the efficiency of firms operating in Calabria, a small and economically … manufacturing firms which are observed over the 1998-2006 period. Results show that the efficiency score is, on average, about 60 …%. A declining trend is observed over the last three-year period, 2004-2006. Moreover, firm efficiency increases with firm …

The challenge of the econometric problem in production efficiency analysis is that the very efficiency scores to be …-grounded statistical inference about the true efficiency scores from their DEA-estimates. In this paper we investigate possibility of using …

efficiency scores with stochastic properties. However, the DEA Bootstrap is still inappropriate in the presence of small samples …’ efficiency. A deficiency of DEA is that the efficiency scores assigned to each firm are sensitive to sampling variations … is limited compared to the number of inputs and output. As a result, in case of small samples, DEA efficiency scores …

In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different … performing a bootstrap-based analysis of group efficiencies (weighted and non-weighted), estimating and comparing densities of … efficiency distributions, and conducting a bootstrapped truncated regression analysis. We find evidence of interesting …

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 …

: technical change, scale economies and technical efficiency. To this end, a stochastic frontier model, similar to that of Battese … and Coelli (1995), is estimated. This model allow to associate technical efficiency to a set of explanatory variables … efficiency, due to the softening of Colombia’s foreign trade restrictions. However, throughout the period 2000-2007, productivity …

Technical Efficiency (TE). It uses a panel dataset of Italian manufacturing firms during the period 1995-2003. In contrast to … positively associated with productivity and efficiency, but that the elasticities are lower than those associated with non …

statistically significant improvement in the levels of technical efficiency among dairy farms associated with the 1997 quota scheme …

This paper investigates the efficacy and technical efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the productive … have positive effect on technical efficiency with 0.6 of semi-elasticity estimated on average whereas bank loans have on … dualism deepening makes it possible to almost double increase the productive efficiency in WAEMU area. …