2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …

The aim of this paper is to assess the efficiency of a set of 62 precious metal mutual funds (PMMFs) and to explain … performance differences between funds using weighted additive data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression, respectively …

better as they also showed higher efficiency from the DEA's point of view. …The main subject of theoretical-empirical study presented in this paper is economic efficiency of companies listed on … essence and assessment measures of companies' economic efficiency. The second part presents the results of a comparative …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their …

issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual … subject to spatial dependence, rendering any analysis biased that aims at identifying the determinants of efficiency … differentials. We address this issue by specifying a spatial auto- regressive model to explain efficiency scores for German …

This paper aims to examine the relative efficiency of German engineering firms using a sample of roughly 23 …-growth, it is expected that a majority of firms is operating quite efficiently and that the density of efficiency scores is … whether these firms are the most efficient ones. Finally an increasing efficiency gap between size classes over time is …

-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public …The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non …