Efficiencies are frequently a significant part of the business rationale for a transaction. However, receiving credit for the efficiency-enhancing aspects of a combination in a merger review is often difficult. By the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice’s own account, “the antitrust laws give competition, not internal operational efficiency, primacy in protecting customers” and “...

The objective of this research paper is to design and implement wireless sensor networks (WSN) for various monitoring & control applications in industry. In today’s competitive market the industries are facing growing demands to improve process efficiencies to comply with environmental regulations and meet corporate financial objectives. Therefore, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for industri...

Employing the one-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach, this paper examines bank efficiency in China, paying special attention to the ownership, selection effect and dynamic effects of governance changes on bank performance. Bank efficiency has improved over the data period 1995-2008. The estimated average cost and profit efficiencies are 74% and 63% respectively. Joint Stock Commer...

Diffusion of Information Technology (IT) throughout the health care delivery system over the last several years has affected the way hospitals and other providers conduct their business.A number of market-driven factors (e.g., a shift of financial risk from payers to providers) explain IT dissemination and the growth of a health care IT “market” that is populated by hundreds of vendors. Prospec...

Economic geographers are directing increasing attention to international expansion by leading retail TNCs. However, there has been minimal examination of the financing methods of these firms and, while the major retail TNCs have supply relationships in subSahara Africa, so far none have opened stores on the continent. Therefore in this paper we analyse expansion into sub-Sahara Africa by a seco...