The Global Financial Crisis creates liquidity shocks, banks failures and a global economic downturn while led to significant supervisory and regulatory reforms affecting banks efficiency performance. We offer new insights investigating overall inefficiency and by decomposing into transient and...

Understanding global food production and productivity patterns is crucial for policy and in-vestment decisions aimed at addressing poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. This paper develops comprehensive calorific-based production and yield indexes for 144 crops, covering 98 percent of...

Natural gas price forecasting is critical to many macroeconomic projection models and plays a vital role in state budget planning in energy-producing states. We examine the performances of various individual and composite forecasting models when predicting natural gas prices in the United...