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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005

We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...

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A SURVEY ON INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL METHODS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

Galagedera, Don U.A. - EconWPA - 2004

theories of frontier estimation, known as stochastic frontier estimation and data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA enables the … empirical studies in finance. The DEA methodology and its application in the finance sector are discussed in detail. …

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STRUCTURING PRODUCT-MARKETS: AN APPROACH BASED ON CUSTOMER VALUE

Staat, Matthias; Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik - EconWPA - 2004

We offer an efficiency-based approach to derive market partitions and respective benchmarks using Data Envelopment Analysis. Product efficiency is measured as an output to input value from the customer’s perspective. Products offering a maximum customer value relative to alternatives represent...

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Performance evaluation of ethical mutual funds in slump periods

Basso, Antonella; Funari, Stefania - EconWPA - 2005

classical performance indicators and in DEA modeling. In this paper we propose a suitably adjusted DEA model which allows the …

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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...

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Efficiency of Banks in Regions at Different Stage of European Integration Process

Stavarek, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates commercial banks’ efficiency in three relatively homogenous groups of countries with different level of economic development and different involvement in the process of European integration. The first group consists of Portugal and Greece, the second group is represented...

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The Law of One Price in Data Envelopment Analysis: Restricting Weight Flexibility Across Firms

Kuosmanen, Timo; Cherchye, Laurens; Sipiläinen, Timo - EconWPA - 2003

thus far. This paper shows how LoOP-based weight restrictions can be incorporated in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …-specific output weights and variable returns-to-scale, and preserves the linear programming structure of the standard DEA. We apply … deepening the DEA analysis. …

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Firm and Industry Level Profit Efficiency Analysis Under Incomplete Price Data: A Nonparametric Approach based on Absolute and Uniform Shadow Prices

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika; Sipiläinen, Timo; … - EconWPA - 2005

We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of complete price information, and propose two new insights. First, choosing one commodity (whose price is known) as a numeraire good enables us to measure profit inefficiency in...

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Data Envelopment Analysis in Environmental Valuation: Environmental Performance, Eco-efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika - EconWPA - 2004

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based method for evaluating performance of comparable … environmental economics and related fields remains limited. The purpose of this paper is to present basic principles of DEA and … evaluate its application possibilities for a range of environmental valuation problems. We show how DEA has to be adjusted to …

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Benchmarking Sustainable Development: A Synthetic Meta-index Approach

Cherchye, Laurens; Kuosmanen, Timo - EconWPA - 2002

The need for monitoring countries’ overall performance in Sustainable Development (SD) is widely recognized, but the methods for aggregating vast amounts of empirical data remain rather crude. This paper examines the so-called ‘benefit-of-the-doubt’ weighting method as a tool for...

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