Selected Banks Economic Efficiency Indicators

Economic Performance Analysis of Selected Military Hospitals Using Hospital Indicators and Inpatient Bed-Day Cost

Background: Hospitals, the main providers of healthcare services, are costly centers which account for about 80% of the health sector budget and have a huge share of resources. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the economic performance of selected military hospitals in Tehran using hospital indicators and inpatient bed-day costs. Method...

Technical efficiency in Saudi banks

This study analyses the technical efficiency of Saudi banks using a two-stage DEA-data envelopment analysis approach. In the first stage, we use a bootstrapped DEA–VRS model to identify the efficiency scores, and in the second stage, we use a bootstrapped truncated regression model to identify the covariates that explain technical efficiency. Policy implications are derived. 2010 Elsevier Ltd. ...

Measuring economic efficiency with incomplete price information: With an application to European commercial banks

Measuring economic efficiency requires complete price information, while resorting to technical efficiency exclusively does not utilise any price information. In most studies, at least some information on the prices is available from theory or practical knowledge of the industry under evaluation. In this paper we derive upper and lower bounds for Farrell's overall economic efficiency, assuming ...

On Pairwise Granger-Causality Analysis of Selected Economic Indicators in Nigeria

Cluster and Factor Analysis of Structural Economic Indicators for Selected European Countries

The last wave of EU enlargement ended on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. Many countries of the South-Eastern Europe aspire to join the EU. Croatia appears to be the next prospective member, so the aim of this paper was to classify Croatia and EU 27 Member States according to the structural economic indicators. These countries were gathered into homogenous groups in te...