data of the United States labor market for the period of 1980 - 2010, we received that the efficiency of a college …

An economic measure of scale efficiency is the ratio of the minimum average cost to the average cost at the actual …

, maintaining and enhancing productive efficiency is a precondition for competitiveness of the Indian firms in the new liberalized … levels of technical efficiency in the Indian textiles industry at the firm level. We use both a grand frontier applicable to …

measuring efficiency scores of individual firms from the aggregated model have to be appropriately modified. An empirical …

Using the directional distance function we study a cross section of 110 countries to examine the efficiency of … emission intensity adjusted for technical efficiency. Only 10% of the countries are found to be on the frontier. Also, there is … considerable inter-country variation in the imputed opportunity cost of CO2 reduction. Further, differences in technical efficiency …

In this paper we use the 2004-05 Annual Survey of Industries data to estimate the levels of cost efficiency of Indian … manufacturing firms in the various states and also get state level measures of industrial organization (IO) efficiency. The …, on average, Indian firms are too small. Consolidating them to attain the optimal scale would further enhance efficiency …

study, we employ a measure of Pareto-Koopmans global efficiency to evaluate the efficiency levels of the MBA programs in … Business Week's top-rated list. We compute input- and output-oriented radial and non-radial efficiency measures for comparison …, although variations in efficiency levels do occur within the same tier, which exist over different measures of efficiency. …