, the efficiency of higher education institutions is increasingly coming into focus. Since the 2000s, more and more studies … on the efficiency of German universities have been published. While the research focus and the applied methods differ … aim of this paper was to show differences and commonalities in efficiency between universities of applied sciences and …

This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine … how electoral cycles influence local government efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and instrumental … variable estimations in a large balanced panel of around 2,000 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria. Cost efficiency …

dataset of 10 ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2017, this study examines the productivity and efficiency of the ASEAN economies … productivity index to provide estimates of gross technical efficiency, technical progress and returns to scale change, while taking … into account of transient and persistent efficiency. The results show that there is room for efficiency gains, as the ASEAN …

. Therefore, this study aims to determine the impact of environmental efficiency (EE) on tourism export using the cross … environmental efficiency affects tourism export. Our purpose in analyzing this relationship is to offer insights that will help the …

We used Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) data to capture more detailed outputs and measured hospital efficiency … experienced worse efficiency measurements. Weighting makes a more accurate estimation of the production functions possible. The … services rendered in Japanese hospitals varied greatly, then it is possible that gaps in efficiency are greater than previously …

This paper analyses region-level technical efficiency in the European Union over the 1995 to 2007 period. We propose … of production congestion. We also find that there is a strong geographic pattern of European regional efficiency, and … that the levels of technical efficiency have converged during the period under analysis …

significant supervisory and regulatory reforms affecting banks efficiency performance. We offer new insights investigating overall … that persistent efficiency seems to be more important for both specifications, as it accounts for 32\% (for the production …

Big-5 Chinese banks display good efficiency. However, their low meta-technology ratios indicate that they are currently … efficiency. Further, the low efficiency scores and high meta-technology ratios demonstrate that the city commercial banks may … environments. Finally, we find Chinese banks generally exhibit a stable and increasing level of technical efficiency over the …