This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid … measuring the labor productivity of each organization that provides services and comparing it to the benchmark. Two main results …

This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid … measuring the labor productivity of each organization that provides services and comparing it to the benchmark. Two main results …

Malmquist Productivity Indexes over individual decision making units (firms, countries, etc.) into a group Malmquist … Productivity Index. We also consider the aggregation of decomposed parts of the Malmquist Productivity Index to obtain a … decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index for a particular group. …

Improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of supply-side waste management are necessary in many countries. In …-management efficiency. In this study, we measure the efficiency of waste management and explore how technology is related to technical … efficiency. We find that municipalities are likely to adopt less-efficient technologies and that the central government …

The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical Data … and correct the bias, and to construct confidence intervals for the efficiency measures. The simulation results show that … the efficiency measures are subject to sampling variations. The adjusted measure reveals that high schools with residence …

looking at the total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Furthermore, the study also investigate the efficiency in commercial …This study aims to investigate the efficiency in Thai financial sector after the financial crisis (1998 – 2004) by … bank sector, finance and securities company sector and insurance company sector, and the efficiency in domestic and foreign …

panel data fixed effects regression analysis. The results reveal that efficiency change is negatively related to the number … of branches. We find a positive relationship between loan ratio and the performance indices efficiency and efficiency … change. Furthermore, bank capitalization is positively related to efficiency change. Interestingly however, return on equity …

This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the … distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R …&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm …

The goal of the paper is to evaluate the impact of reducing the administrative costs on the efficiency in the public … productivity in the public sector. The theoretical results are empirical exemplified for a local service of public utility …