in the commercial banking activities, efficiency is an important issue for the bank managers, monitoring part and clients. this study has appraised the efficiency performance of the commercial banks in iran. the research method has been using windows data envelopment analysis with constant and variable returns to scale and input oriented model at the period of 1991-2006. the sample of study was...

This paper looks at factors that influenced national investment in information technology during the tumultuous time period 1993 through 2002. Whereas spending from 1993-1997 was influenced by uncertainty avoidance and individualism, after 1998 these factors no longer influenced IT investment. Similar to studies of IT usage in the previous decade (1985-1995) we find that the structure of the ec...

This paper seeks to investigate the determinants of banking network profitability in Iran from 2007 to 2012. The results of our study indicate that both bank-specific factors and macroeconomic factors influence banks’ profitability in Iran. Results confirm that bank profitability is significantly influenced by investment to total assets ratio, non-performing loans to total assets ratio, a...

this paper talks about the measurement of efficiency and productivity of non-life insurance firms in india. this study is focused on twelve private non-life insurance firms and four public sector non-life insurance firms of india in the period 2008-09 to 2012-13. data envelopment analysis (dea) coupled with malmquist productivity index is used in measuring the efficiency as well as productivity...

This paper presents the results of the first empirical investigation of the effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) investment on business performance in Greece. It investigates the effect of both ‘hard’ ICT investment (in ICT hardware, software and networks) and ‘soft’ ICT investment (in ICT human resources, skills and organization) on firm output. It is based on data from b...

Investment in business inventories has averaged roughly one-half of 1 percent of real GDP in the United States over the post–World War II period. Given its relatively minor role as a component of output, it might seem curious that inventory investment has traditionally drawn a great deal of interest from macroeconomists and policymakers. One reason is that although the level of inventory invest...

The strategic effects of subsidies on output and subsidies on investment differ substantiaily in dynamic models where a government's commitment ability is limited. Output subsidies remain effective even as the period of commitment vanishes, but investment subsidies may become completely ineffective. This difference has been obscured because most existing models of strategic trade policy are sta...

The strategic effects of subsidies on output and subsidies on investment differ substantially in dynamic modeis where a government's commitment ability is limited. Output subsidies remain effective even as the period of commitment vanishes. but investment subsidies may become completeiy ineffective. This difference has been obscured because most existing models of strategic trade policy are sta...