... derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. Universities Productivity Efficiency Malmquist index...

... such a model exists. Originality/value The investigation of resignation lag advances the literature because it is in the interest of auditors to drop more unfavourable engagements sooner. This efficiency issue, absent in prior studies, is important to an understanding of the audit market. In addition...

... outcomes largely depends on their influence in decision-making. This paper aims to examine the effect of corporate governance attributes, in the form of board characteristics, on technical efficiency in the South African life insurance industry. Design/methodology/approach Using the two-stage data...

... on various market quality factors such as liquidity, bid-ask spreads, volatility and market efficiency. Liquidity is proxied by trading volume. Bid-ask spreads provide a measure for the cost of trading in the market. Volatility is measured by using Parkinson’s (1980) volatility as in Huang and Tsai (2008...

... is whether Australia’s universities increased their efficiency in a manner consistent with the demands of government to provide productivity “dividends” or efficiencies? Design/methodology/approach Using archival data for 37 Australian universities from 2007 to 2013, this paper examines changes...