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Analyzing the Greek renewable energy sector: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach
(2012)This paper applies a bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) formulation aiming to evaluate the financial performance of the firms operating in the Greek renewable energy sector. With the use of financial ratios in a ... -
Carbon dioxide emissions and governance: A nonparametric analysis for the G-20
(2013)This paper applies nonparametric estimators to examine the carbon dioxide emissions-governance relationship. By using data for the twenty largest economies (Group of twenty, G-20) the dynamics of the considered relationship ... -
A conditional directional distance function approach for measuring regional environmental efficiency: Evidence from UK regions
(2013)This paper, by using conditional directional distance functions as introduced by Simar and Vanhems [J. Econometrics 166 (2012) 342-354] modifies the model by Fare and Grosskopf [Eur. J. Operat. Res. 157 (2004) 242-245] and ... -
A conditional nonparametric analysis for measuring the efficiency of regional public healthcare delivery: An application to Greek prefectures
(2011)Objectives: The purpose of this study is to measure the Greek public healthcare delivery efficiency from a regional perspective by applying conditional nonparametric models. Methods: The study reviews the existing literature ... -
Corruption and Economic Efficiency: Panel Data Evidence
(2010)This paper investigates empirically the effect of corruption on countries' economic efficiency. By using a sample of 79 countries for the time period 2000-2006 the paper applies DEA window analysis and econometric panel ... -
The culture of corruption: A nonparametric analysis
(2012)By using a sample of 77 countries the analysis applies several nonparametric techniques in order to reveal the link between national culture and corruption, Based on Hofstede s cultural dimensions and the corruption ... -
Does the Home Country's National Culture Affect MNCs' Performance? Empirical Evidence of the World's Top 100 East-West Non-financial MNCs
(2008)The question of why some multinational corporations (MNCs) perform better than others is at the centre of the analysis of many international business disciplines and the subject of a never-ending debate of policy-makers. ... -
Economic efficiency and growth in the EU enlargement
(2009)This paper deals with the effects of EMU enlargement (European Economic and Monetary Union) by evaluating the economic efficiency of growth policies of the 25 member countries. By using Data Envelopment Window Analysis the ... -
Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from US regions
(2013)This paper proposes a conditional directional distance function estimator in order to examine the link between regional environmental efficiency and GDP per capita levels. As an illustrative example we apply our model to ... -
THE EFFECT OF ACCESS TO IMPROVED WATER SOURCES AND SANITATION ON ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY: THE CASE OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
(2012)This paper evaluates the effect of access to improved water sources and sanitation on 41 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries' economic efficiency and growth. For this reason data envelopment analysis (DEA), bootstrap ... -
The effect of electricity consumption from renewable sources on countries' economic growth levels: Evidence from advanced, emerging and developing economies
(2014)This paper uses a sample of 36 countries for the time period 1990-2011 in order to examine the relationship between countries' electricity consumption from renewable sources and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) levels. Several ... -
The effect of foreign ownership on SMEs performance: An efficiency analysis perspective
(2010)This paper uses both Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Free Disposal Hull (FDH) models in order to determine different performance levels in a sample of 353 foreign equities operating in the Greek manufacturing sector. ... -
The effect of human capital on countries' economic efficiency
(2014)The paper applies time-dependent conditional frontier estimators in order to examine the effect of human capital on countries' economic efficiency levels. Specifically, time-dependent conditional full and partial efficiency ... -
Efficiency dynamics in Indian banking: A conditional directional distance approach
(2015)The paper contributes to the contemporary research on bank efficiency in India. We analyze the efficiency dynamics of the Indian banking industry from 2004 to 2012. Based on the recent methodological developments of the ... -
Electricity Generation and Economic Efficiency: Panel Data Evidence from World and East Asian Countries
(2009)Taking a commonly-used and commonly-available trade policy model as our starting point, we examine the long-run effects of large-scale structural change with and without international capital accumulation, mobility and ... -
Estimating the degree of operating efficiency gains from a potential bank merger and acquisition: A DEA bootstrapped approach
(2013)We propose a bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-based procedure to pre-calculate and pre-evaluate the short-run operating efficiency gains of a potential bank merger or acquisition (M&A). As an illustrative ... -
Exploring the existence of Kuznets curve in countries' environmental efficiency using DEA window analysis
(2009)This paper, using data envelopment (DEA) window analysis and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators, examines the existence of a Kuznets type relationship between countries' environmental efficiency and national ... -
Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Process and Firm Start-Ups: Evidence from Central Greece
(2012)Over the last two decades, technological changes have reformed business environment and made entrepreneurial activity as the main channel behind knowledge spillovers and knowledge creation. Therefore, the factors affecting ... -
Growth and environmental pollution: Empirical evidence from China
(2011)Purpose - The rapid economic growth of China has attracted the attention of economists, researchers and politicians. China is one of the largest economies in the world, with its gross domestic product (GDP) rising on an ... -
High performance management: An illustrative example of sales departments' productivity measurement
(2009)This paper describes a conceptual approach to measure and compare productivity of resource utilization at the firm level, adapting a set of techniques known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Within this approach, the ...