The paper introduces a new dynamic frontier model that is used to analyze the impact of both ownership and regulation on airport technical and allocative efficiencies. We differentiate between the short and long-term effects. Based on a large sample of international airports, we find in the...

This paper examines the performance of European banks during the pre-crisis and post-crisis periods, both in terms of technical and allocative efficiencies. We use an innovative Bayesian dynamic frontier model that: (1) distinguishes between short-run and long-run performance; and (2) provides...

In this paper we consider the possibility that a firm may use costly resources to improve its technical efficiency. Results from static analyses imply that technical efficiency is determined by the configuration of factor prices. A dynamic model of the firm is developed under the assumption that...