We employ a wide range of parametric and non-parametric cost frontiers' efficiency estimation methods to estimate economic efficiency and economies of scale, using the same panel data of 22 Taiwanese commercial banks over the period 1982-97. According to our empirical implementation, the two...

The present paper aims to access the performance of the Indian Fabrics Industry (IFI) across firms through estimating its efficiency scores covering the period 1991 to 2015 considering Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) firm level data using Nonparametric Method of Data Envelopment...

The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that could happen through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we use a cross-section sample of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data...