Journal of Economics and Business 

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a set of consistency conditions which frontier efficiency measures should meet to be most useful for regulatory analysis or other purposes, and provide evidence on these conditions by evaluating and comparing estimates of U.S. bank efficiency from variants of all four of the major approaches.

TL;DR: This paper examined the causes of bankruptcy for a sample of 949 UK listed companies between 1987 and 1994 and found that the most important determinants of bankruptcy are profitability, leverage, cashflow, company size, industry sector and the economic cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the long run and causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth for seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test.

TL;DR: The role of location in competition is discussed in this article, where the authors propose a model for the role of locations in competition in the context of location-based competition in business.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed Malmquist growth indexes and productivity indexes for each Thai bank for 1989-1994 using best practice production frontiers, and found that when bank objectives were used, the average bank in Thailand experienced relatively rapid growth in production (relative to the previous year's best practice) and in total factor productivity.