This paper examines the role of seaport efficiency in the relationship between trade and welfare outcomes in Africa … estimation technique is used for the empirical analysis. The paper reveals that seaport efficiency and trade enhances welfare … policies aimed at using trade to enhance welfare should pay a critical attention to efficiency of African seaports by …

efficiency. Homotheticity is a useful restriction or assumption but data rarely satisfy testable conditions. To overcome this … problem, this article provides a way to estimate homothetic efficiency of consumption choices by consumers. The basic … efficiency index suggested is similar to Afriat’s (1972) efficiency index and Varian’s (1993) violation index. It generalises …

We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

research aims to know what has been the behavior of productivity and efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the province … reports of the manufacturing companies between 2010 and 2018 was processed. The values of efficiency were estimated using the … data enveloping analysis technique. With the annual information, the evolution of productivity and efficiency was predicted …

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

, 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 …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …