Auch 30 Jahre nach der Deutschen Vereinigung erreicht die ostdeutsche Wirtschaft nur 82% der westdeutschen Arbeitsproduktivität. Dieser Unterschied in der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Arbeitsproduktivität steht in engem Zusammenhang mit vielen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Problemen, denen...

Inefficiency is common in many of the world's water utilities, especially in developing countries. The problem derives from a range of different causes relating primarily to technical, organizational, and commercial (TOC) factors. Evidence from a World Bank study conducted in 2020 shows that...

Purpose - This paper investigates the development of efficiency and the progress of banking integration in the European Union by checking for convergence among banks of European and Eurozone countries as well as contrasting the results with those of United States banks....

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) network readiness competency improves service quality and provides efficient service in implementing successful e-governments. By confirming ICT network readiness of e-governments, it must be redesigned using limited resources effectively to...

A feature of the recent global slowdown in productivity growth is that progress at the technological frontier has remained strong, while the gap between firms at the global frontier and other 'laggards' within an industry has grown. This growing gap reflects the fact that laggard firms now seem...

Background: Optimizing efficiency has become increasingly critical with the growing demand for finite healthcare resources driven by population growth and an ageing society. Hence, policymakers are urgently finding more efficient ways to deliver health services. Thalassemia is a complex...

The Panama Canal expansion has influenced the development of ports within the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, intending to capitalise on economic opportunities through seaborne trade. Examining port performance is essential to ascertain the PCE impact on port efficiency within the...

Energy efficiency is a key component of climate policy. We study micro and macro rebound effects after the introduction of energy-efficient biomass cookstoves (EEBCs). We develop a model of biomass supply and demand in rural Africa. The impact of EEBCs is empirically explored in Rwanda where we...

China is the world's largest electricity producer and consumer, and the healthy development of the electricity industry contributes to its economic growth and social stability. Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) and non-YREB are two major economic engines of great strategic significance for...

Nonparametric methods have been widely used for assessing the performance of organizations in the private and public sector. The most popular ones are based on envelopment estimators, like the FDH or DEA estimators, that estimate the attainable sets and its efficient boundary by enveloping the...

Nonparametric methods have been widely used for assessing the performance of organizations in the private and public sector. The most popular ones are based on envelopment estimators, like the FDH or DEA estimators, that estimate the attainable sets and its efficient boundary by enveloping the...

Ecuador's credit unions or COACs play a key role inside the local economy, and the pandemic period has shown the weakness of the entities. Understanding the efficiency of the country's largest COACs and the different factors related to it can provide important information for policymakers and...

We use the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the parametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to workout efficiency and productivity of the ICT sector across 50 countries for the time period 2016 and 2020. By considering OECD -DSTRI index as bad output, the study intends to...

The development of innovation at a regional level in a transition economy is characterised by complex multidirectional processes of generating and commercialising innovation, indicating the need for systematic research and rethinking of the existing methods of managing such territorial entities...

The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa with particular emphasis on income levels (Middle income versus Low income countries) and legal origins (English Common law versus French Civil law countries). The focus is on 53...

This paper studies the role of ownership structure in determining the relationship between firm characteristics and credit constraints affecting firm level investment. Firm size is a significant determinant of credit constraints in case of business group un-affiliated firms, domestic firms, and...

We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...

Border irrigation is one of the most ancient and, at the same time, still common irrigation methods for watering row crops worldwide. This method requires large quantities of fresh water to be poured onto the fields by only using gravity and without additional energy costs; however, due to the...

Productivity of bean has boosted up in recent decades all over the world. Nevertheless, variation of productivity among farmers caused by input use differences and management practices adoption is found especially in developing countries. This study investigates production risk and technical...

This study examines the technical inefficiency of small and medium Japanese manufacturing firms by using panel data from the Basic Survey on Small and Medium Enterprises (2009-2018). We estimate the stochastic frontier production function with four production factors (regular workers,...

The catalytic activity of the peroxophosphomolybdate (nBu4N)3{PO4[MoO(O2)2]4} (PMo4) was optimized for the oxidative desulfurization of a multicomponent model diesel. Its heterogenization in distinct MOFs supporting structures (MIL-101, MOF-808 and ZIF-8) was performed and the catalytic activity...

Decarbonization is a huge challenge for the entire world, as well as for shipping industry. Energy efficiency improvements are an important part of the GHG reductions, and new possibilities for this emerge especially in the field of waste heat recovery, once the industry is transferring into...

Advocates for education reforms frequently call for policies to increase school efficiency performance. The Greek educational system has undergone several reforms while the recent financial crisis alters significantly. Using a unique dataset this study attempts to shed light on 643 Greek...

Farmers in developing countries like Bangladesh face different kinds of rice production risk, which influences yield variability. This study investigates the technical efficiency and production risk of Boro and Aman rice production season in Bangladesh by using stochastic production frontier...

Banking efficiency is becoming more vital in a world where international marketplaces are becoming increasingly competitive. This premise lays the groundwork for achieving the study’s goal. The major goal of this research is to look at the link between Pakistan’s Revenue Diversification and...

We analyze the extent to which hospitality firms overuse staff using a production function model which considers firm heterogeneity and accounts for environmental variables in staff use. We decompose overall staff use inefficiency into transient and persistent inefficiency. To do this, we employ...

How successful did the Brazilian Hereditary Captaincies done at the 16th century? Until recently, no data-oriented study has explored this question. In this article I use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to address this question, estimating several production possibility frontiers. The main...

The main objective of the research is to measure the economic efficiency of sheep rearers in Al-Hasakah Governorate using the data envelopment analysis method. The sample size was 313 rearers, who were selected by random sampling method from the administrative regions of Al-Hasaka Governorate....

This paper adopts the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to model working capital efficiency (WCE) on a sample of 6,170 European firms from 2009 to 2018. We find: (i) larger firms are more efficient with their working capital management (WCM) than smaller firms, (ii) higher cash holding...

This paper analyzes efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector over the period 1997-2019. We find strong evidence for scale economies: for most banks in the sample, efficiency and profitability increase with bank size. Using an instrumental variables strategy for a subset of...

This article aims to evaluate the effect of insurance on production, technical efficiency, and input use of Italian specialised-quality grape growers. A panel instrumental variable stochastic frontier approach is applied over the years 2008-2017 using data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network....

Purpose: the objective is to measure the financial and social performance of 127 microfinance institutions (MFIs) and observe the effects with explanatory factors such as “type”, “geography region”, and “secular and faith” variables. Design/methodology/approach: The time-series...