We innovate in the field of water companies' performance with an application of the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator (LPI) to the assessment of water companies' productivity growth. The advantage of our approach is that it takes into account both input...

During the last 30 years a series of deep trasformations positioned Chilean financial system atop of Lationamerica and Emerging Markets. In this paper we examine banks performance in 2000-2019 estimating technical efficiency. Most inference is conducted using both parametric and non-parametric...