international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

important since that would be a signal for a structural problem within the industry. The analysis - using recently developed DEA …

In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus … companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the …

of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory … power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency … while maintaining most of the variation in the original data. Our results suggest that the PCA-DEA methodology reduces the …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A …