This study analyzes difference in efficiency among the U.S. rural hospitals using a two-stage, semi-parametric approach … on the efficiency of these hospitals while Medicare prospective payment system for non-CAH rural hospitals has a positive … effect on hospital efficiency. …

This paper investigates how managerial capacity aspects influence efficiency of dairy farms in Sweden. Based on non … efficiency scores, but to influence output efficiency less. Examples of important aspects are: internal locus of control …, positive profitability attitude, profitability perception and participation in study circles. Based on this, a way of …

The article aims to investigate how operational managerial practices can contribute to improved farm level efficiency … contribution of the article is that it investigates aspects that can be adjusted every day to improve farm efficiency. Aspects … describing each of the considered managerial practices are regressed on farm level data envelopment efficiency scores based on …

directive. The objective is to compare productive efficiency of farms under the two regimes. First, we develop a model that …

the productivity, efficiency change and technical change indices. The model included three inputs (labor, land and … agricultural subsidies may create disincentives for farmers to improve their productivity and efficiency. A higher nonfarm income …

is that environmental performance is based on the definition of the eco-efficiency as the ratio of economic value added … representing changes due to technological progress (or regress) and due to changes in relative eco-efficiency. The dynamic … progress mostly explain overall environmental performance growth, while relative eco-efficiency changes have been minor for …

This article integrates fuzzy set theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to compute technical efficiency … situations, input and output data may be imprecise. We present an approach of measuring efficiency when data is known to lie …. Compared to the convectional DEA scores that are point estimates, the computed fuzzy efficiency scores allow the decision maker …

efficiency and economic profitability. …Economic viability of the US corn ethanol industry depends on prices, technical and economic efficiency of plants and … on continuation of policy support. Public policy support is tied to the environmental efficiency of plants measured as …

In this study we use data envelopment analysis to decompose the overall economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol … plants into three subcomponents: technical efficiency, allocative efficiency and a new component we call marketing efficiency …. The relative importance of these sources of efficiency is of particular interest given the recent history of bankruptcies …