Airline productivity and efficiency have remained an area of tremendous interest among both
academics and industry analysts since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 was enacted in …

This paper argues that the private-public ownership factor should be differentiated from
other factors that also influence the effect of privatization on efficiency. This is empirically …

The origins of empirical cost analysis in transportation is reviewed, but concentration is on
developments over the last 15 years or so. Aggregate cost functions are studied to infer …

The principal aim of this paper is to measure the efficiency of international airlines. We
obtain measures of technical efficiency from stochastic frontier production functions which …

This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the operational performance
of a sample of AEA—Association of European Airlines from 2000 to 2005, combining …

In this paper we carry out technical efficiency and productivity growth comparisons among
the four largest European carriers and eight of their American counterparts. The time period …

In this empirical study, we apply bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) models
under variable returns to scale to examine both the environmental and technical efficiencies …

Major institutional, regulatory, and structural changes have occurred in international air
transport during the past two decades. Many countries have deregulated their domestic …

The objective of the study is to analyze the board–performance relationship for a group of 14
Canadian SOEs. This context is unique because SOEs do not have major control devices …

It seems widely accepted today that productivity growth in banking and insurance services,
herein called financial services, is very low, if not negative. In a recent paper on the US …