, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency level for each animal oriented type of farm in the sample. The production frontier and efficiency index for each type … of farm (assuming no specific production functions) are identified using DEA techniques. We then address the relationship …

relative productive efficiency of teaching hospitals in our sample. Outputs will be defined as an array of inpatient and …

This paper investigates efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and productivity growth using Malmquist index … compared to managerial efficiency. In general, smaller banks are less efficient and highly DEA-efficient banks have a high … and loans and other earning assets as output in the DEA analysis we observe no significant growth in productivity during …

discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …

The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …

industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …