Energy consumption and greenhouse emissions across many countries have increased overtime despite widespread energy efficiency improvements. One explanation offered in the literature is the rebound effect (RE), however there is a debate about the magnitude and appropriate model for estimating...

This thesis examines banking efficiency and the productivity of thirteentransition Central and Eastern European banking systems during 1998-2003 usingData Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It proposes a non-parametric methodology fornon-radial Russell output efficiency measure of banking firms,...