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Benchmarking Peruvian Banks using Data Envelopment Analysis
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2011)
Despite the growing literature on bank efficiency worldwide over the last decade, researchers have neglected the Peruvian banking sector. In this paper, the technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to investigate ...
Scale Efficiency Measurement in Data Envelopment Analysis with Interval Data: A Two-Level Programming Approach
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2011)
Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units (DMUs) requires the observations to have precise values. When observations are imprecise and represented ...
Productivity Growth: Patterns and Determinants across the World
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2019-10-29)
This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank’s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic ...
Productivity of Automobile Industries using the Malmquist Index: Evidence from the Last Economic Recession
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2011)
In this paper, the financial information provided by Fortune Magazine is used to study the productivity changes in the global auto industry during 1991-1997, including automakers from the USA, Europe, Japan, and South ...
Obras por Impuestos: Cuellos de Botella y Propuesta de Mejoras
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015)
El presente artículo describe y analiza las condiciones actuales de la aplicación delmecanismo de Obras por Impuestos (OXI), identificando seis obstáculos principales que dificultan de manera apreciable su implementación ...
Efficiency Determinants and Dynamic Efficiency Changes in Latin American Banking Industries
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2013)
This paper investigates the determinants of efficiency and dynamic efficiency changes across Latin American banking industries during recent periods of financial liberalization. Allocative, technical, pure technical, and ...
Natural Resources Exchange Traded Funds: Performance Appraisal using DEA Modeling
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2011)
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of a sample of natural resources exchange traded funds (ETFs) by applying a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, the generalized proportional distance function ...
Measuring the Performance of a Dehydration Plant of Apples
(CENTRUM Publishing, 2015)
Given the importance of the Chilean dried-fruit market and the characteristics of the industrial process of dehydration, it becomes imperative for companies to measure the efficiency of their production processes in order ...
Periodic Integration and Cointegration of U.S. Stock Prices, Dividends, and Interest Rates: A New Test of the Present Value Model
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2011)
This paper presents a new test of the present value model of stock price determination, using some of the recent advances in the econometrics of seasonal time series. Unlike earlier studies which generally find stock prices, ...
A Satisficing DEA Model to Measure the Customer-based Brand Equity
(CENTRUM Publishing, 2015)
Ever since the inception of brand values, these have become a benchmark for many data-driven strategies, eventually providing a basis for vertical/horizontal integrations, as well. In recent decades, brands have become ...