environmental production efficiency rankings of these nations? Secondly, is there a relationship between a nation's ratification … status and its environmental production efficiency ranking? We use the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare the …'s efficiency record as a relative benchmark in a truly global sense.Our findings suggest that the nations that have ratified the …

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 …

stage, cross country workers' efficiency is estimated using a bootstrapped DEA approach over the period of 1990-2000 for 78 … countries. In the second stage, the impact of institutions on these efficiency estimates is analyzed in a truncated bootstrapped …, bureaucratic inefficiencies, lax regulations and unfriendly business policies, tend to have a larger effect on workers efficiency …

This paper measures environmental efficiency (EE) and environmental productivity (EP) and analyzes differences in these …

This paper examines how efficiency dynamics of Islamic and conventional banks compare and how they are converging … both steady state efficiency and the speed of convergence of Islamic and conventional banks are similar. A non … across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We …

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 …

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …