Biodiesel or known as fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), is a diesel fuel substitute derived from the transesterification reaction of triglycerides with alcohol in presence suitable catalyst. The demand for biodiesel increasing due to environmental and health awareness, well diminishing energy security. However, impurities will affect engine performance by corroding tubes damaging injectors. Commo...

Green development efficiency is an essential measure of China’s economy turning into a stage high-quality in the new era. This paper establishes spatial Durbin model based on geography economics. It empirically investigates effect technological innovation regional green and moderating fiscal decentralization above mechanism using panel data 29 provinces China from 2010 to 2018. The results show...

of the Paper Information Technology (IT) has got tremendous potential for enhancing the operational efficiency of banks and strengthening their risk management capability, particularly credit risk management. Taking the case of Old Private sector Banks (OPBs) in Kerala state, this paper seeks to analyse the role of IT in improving their net interest margin (NIM) and non-interest margin (NOM), t...

This study uses a sample of 30 banks (4 public, 18 local private and 8 foreign banks) and two stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to provide evidence on the impact of macroeconomic and bank specific factors on banks’ efficiency. We first use DEA to estimate technical and scale efficiency and then Tobit regression approach to find out the impact of several bank-specific and macroeconomic facto...

Family businesses are an important factor for technological progress and high economic efficiency, determining a significant part of economic strength. At present, inside the European Monetary Union (EMU), there are efforts to reduce public debt to fulfill the criteria imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), which are mandatory for members of the Euro zone. Due to these constraints, pub...

This paper analyses French ski resorts productivity with the Luenberger productivity indicator (LPI) based on the directional distance function. It permits the calculation of a productivity indicator that is decomposed into technical efficiency change and technological change. The conclusions are that productivity decreased for the majority of French ski resorts, which is almost always explaine...