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Efficient Production of Wins in Major League Baseball

Volz, Brian - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to Major League Baseball salary and performance data from 1985 to 2006 in …

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Efficiency of College Education in the Labor Market of the United States

Alpert, William; Vaninsky, Alexander - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

value in the labor market. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to weigh the share of GDP spent on a college education and … data of the United States labor market for the period of 1980 - 2010, we received that the efficiency of a college …

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A Non-Radial Measure of Efficiency in Indian Textile Industry: An Analysis of Unit-Level Data

Ray, Subhash; Neogi, Chiranjib - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

second stage regression of DEA efficiency scores in terms of age, ownership, regional location, and other characteristics of …In this paper we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to firm level data from various years of Annual Survey of … Industry to obtain Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency in the Indian textile garments industry. The overall …

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A Bootstrap-Regression Procedure to Capture Unit Specific Effects in Data Envelopment Analysis

Desli, Evangelia; Ray, Subhash - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2004

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency score obtained for an individual firm is a point estimate without any … the DEA stage and bootstrap the residuals from this regression. These pseudo-efficiency scores incorporate the systematic … distributions of efficiency scores. This procedure assumes that all firms have the same probability of getting an efficiency score …

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Shadow Profit Maximization and a Generalized Measure of Inefficiency

Ray, Subhash - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

Determining the profit maximizing input-output bundle of a firm requires data on prices. This paper shows how endogenously determined shadow prices can be used in place of actual prices to obtain the optimal input-output bundle where the firm.s shadow profit is maximized. This approach amounts...

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Minority Status and Managerial Survival in Major League Baseball

Volz, Brian - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008

and data envelopment analysis. Efficiency scores based on team performance and player salary data from 1985 to 2006 are … that winning percentage has no impact on managerial survival when efficiency is controlled for. …

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Nonparametric Measurement of Cost Efficiency of a Demand Constrained Branch Network: An Application to Indian Banking

Ray, Subhash - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2011

In the present study we evaluate the overall cost efficiency of a network of branches of a single large public sector … that area at the minimum operating cost. Our DEA results show that while in many cases, consolidating multiple branches …

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Branching Efficiency in Indian Banking: An Analysis of a Demand-Constrained Network

Ray, Subhash - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014

In the present study we evaluate the overall cost efficiency of a network of branches of a single large public sector … that area at the minimum operating cost. Our DEA results show that there is an evidence of ‘over-branching’ and for the …

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Economic Reforms and Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Manufacturing: An Inter-State Analysis

Ray, Subhash; Deb, Arnab K. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

The extent to which Indian organized manufacturing performance changed after the Economic Reform of 1991 has been an important question among empirical analysts. Using input-output data from the Annual Survey of Industries for the period 1970-71 through 2007-08, this paper compares the pre- and...

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Nonparametric Measures of Scale Economies and Capacity Utilization: An Application to U.S. Manufacturing

Ray, Subhash - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

An economic measure of scale efficiency is the ratio of the minimum average cost to the average cost at the actual … paper proposes a nonparametric method of measuring this output level using DEA. The relation between this efficient …

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