Retail services efficiency: impact of country-specific factors

The Impact of Country-Specific Economic Developments on ECB Decisions

The discussion about country-specific influence on the interest rate decisions of the European Central Bank does not cease. To investigate the possibility of regional influence on the determination of the policy rate, we estimate Taylor-type reaction functions for the period from 1999 to 2005 and include country-specific variables of the euro zone member states. We do not find convincing eviden...

A Survey and Measuring Efficiency Level in the Country\'s Banking System, and the Effective Factors

Human being always wants to be more efficient in order to achieve more profit or welfare. In economic point of view, efficiency means optimize allocation of resources and maximize use of resources with minimum cost in a given technology. Nowadays, efficiency calculation in organizations or in different industries is a necessary step for comparing the level of competition in domestic and foreig...

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Patients’ Assessment of Efficiency of Services at a Teaching Hospital in a Developing Country

The Globalization of Trade in Retail Services