This study analyses the technical efficiency of Saudi Arabian banks using a two-stage DEA-
data envelopment analysis approach. In the first stage, we use a bootstrapped DEA–VRS …

Irrigated agriculture creates substantial environmental pressures by withdrawing large
quantities of water, leaving rivers and wetlands empty and unable to support the valuable …

The water industry faces the challenge of implementing privatization reforms. This process
mainly adopts the following two approaches: the privatization of public water and sewerage …

A natural multiplicative efficiency measure for the Constant Returns to Scale proportional
directional distance function (pDDF) is derived, relating its associated linear program to that …

This paper investigates the effect of intellectual capital (IC) and its components on the
efficiency of Vietnamese commercial banks from 2007 to 2019 using the two-step Data …

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, in the framework of the strategic groups' literature,
it analyZes changes in productivity and efficiency of Spanish private and savings banks over …

We innovate in the field of water companies' performance with an application of the
directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator (LPI) to the …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial
services industry and advances in financial and nonfinancial technologies. Based on the …

This paper analyses efficiency in Brazilian banks from 1998 to 2010 with a Bayesian
dynamic frontier model. This model provides a more structural explanation for the variation …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence about relationships
between the corporate governance (CG) mechanisms of the Spanish savings banks, their …