... Economic efficiency Endogeneity Stochastic frontier analysis Regulatory quality European economies The quality of institutions is crucial to the prosperity of European nations, as they influence economic development, attract investment, and facilitate efficient policy implementation. Good...

...Mahieddine Adnan Ghecham Purpose This study aims at increasing the authors’ understanding how and why the oil curse takes place. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a structural equation model (SEM) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) in order to underline the mechanism under which...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Profitability Nigeria Banking industry Stochastic frontier analysis Following the revolutionary work of Short (1979) , the determinants of bank profitability have continued to draw attentions of scholars, governments...

... of human capital and the implied reduction in productivity (OECD, 2016). Stochastic frontier analysis OECD countries Labour market characteristics Production efficiency Resource misallocation Skill mismatch E23 D20 Economics is the science which studies the way a society uses...

...-life insurance companies from 2007 to 2012, the authors first employ the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate cost and profit efficiency scores. In the second stage, the authors measure insurance market competition using the Panzar-Rosse (P-R) H-statistics. In the final stage...