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issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then … applied to a wide range of EU and OECD countries, including Slovenia and Croatia, to evaluate the technical efficiency of … great majority of EU and OECD countries. Both Slovenia and Croatia show a relatively high level of technical inefficiency in …
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This work analyses the performance of Italian universities taking into account technical efficiency. The study provides an assessment of levels of technical efficiency taking into account also environmental factors. We focus on the relationship between levels of technical efficiency and...
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This paper investigates efficiency performance of thirty six banks operating in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during the period 2006-2008 . Our results indicate in general GCC banks showed considerable pure technical efficiency in the past three years with the year 2007 exhibit the...
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In order to take into account the effects of production on the environment and, more generally, the urgency of finding a path of sustainable development many attempts have been made to set productivity growth measurements, including the negative impact of pollution, the production of goods and...
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econometrics literature. Although non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA) are among the most used techniques … Carlo experiment to analyze how different levels of positive and negative endogeneity can impair DEA estimations. We … conclude that although DEA is robust to negative endogeneity, a high positive endogeneity level, i.e., a high positive …
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One of the most important objectives of innovation policy in most advanced industrial nations is the creation of infrastructure to support innovation, facilitating the transfer of technological knowledge to companies to enable them to acquire the tools more useful and effective to improve their...
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reforms. We use DEA to compute the relative technical efficiency of banks that participated in M&A activities. The technical …
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Agriculture plays an important role in the process of economic development of less developed countries like India …. Besides providing food to nation, agriculture releases labour, provides saving, contributes to market of industrial goods and … earns foreign exchange. Agricultural development is an integral part of overall economic development. In India, agriculture …
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This study uses stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier to estimate farm level technical efficiency of rice farms. Average technical efficiency of sampled farms was estimated to be 85 percent with a minimum of 57 percent and a maximum of 96 percent. The results further showed that the visits...
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This paper provides new estimates of small holder farmers' technical efficiency and its principal determinants using a rural Tigray micro finance survey data collected in 2009. Both descriptive and econometric methods are used. The hypotheses tests confirm the adequacy of Cobb-Douglas over...
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