One hears that the credit ranking score has increased technical efficiency in financial holding companies, when a data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed. Our empirical results show that the credit ranking scores will obviously affect the estimated results of efficiency measurement in...

We evaluate the resource utilisation efficiency with strategy alliances by data envelopment analysis to investigate whether we can reinforce hotel efficiency improvement. The empirical results show that hotels with international chain strategy alliances enjoy higher resource utilisation...

Do mergers promote efficiency in the banking industry? A Data Envelopment Analysis in this study revealed that technical efficiency and productivity in Taiwanese banks increased more during the ex-post period (2003–2004) of the Merger Act than during the ex-ante periods...