This monograph intends to be a handbook or guide regarding efficiency analysis tools, for those interested in either … reading –and properly understanding- specialised papers on the topic, or in carrying out efficiency analysis studies. In … points 3 to 6 the more usual efficiency measures in the topic’s literature are presented and discussed; and it is highlighted …

This paper tries to investigate efficiency of electricity use of 30 administration regions and productivity change of … electricity in China for the period 2003-2008. We use the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to measure the efficiency of … situation of relative efficiency of electricity use and the growth rate of electricity’s productivity. The results indicate that …

efficiency. In this paper, we use the bi-directional distance function method to measure Japanese rice production loss due to … climate. We find that 1) accumulated precipitation has the greatest effect on rice production efficiency and 2) the climate … effect on rice production efficiency decreases over time. Our results empirically support the benefit of an adaptation …

The aim of this study is to provide a methodology for the joint estimation of efficiency and market power of individual … differences in the market power and efficiency levels of banks between the two samples. Market power estimates indicate fairly … some banks deviates from the average behavior, and this finding has important policy implications. Finally, efficiency and …