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Analiza eficienţei activităţii de cercetare dezvoltare inovare prin metoda DEA
Roman, Monica; Suciu, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
By this paper we intend to analyze the existing gap in the efficiency of R&D investment, at European level. The method employed in this respect is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The evaluation of the performance in R&D in European countries, in terms of technical efficiency (TE) thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261115
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Analyzing the efficiency differences among basic health units in Sargodha District
Abbas, Touqeer; Awan, Masood Sarwar; Aslam, Muhammad Amir; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Pakistan has adequate infrastructure for health services delivery at primary level. The study aims to calculate the technical efficiency of Basic Health Units (BHUs) in Sargodha by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the choice of inputs and outputs being specific to BHUs operation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226944
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Technical and scale efficiency in the Italian Citrus Farming: A comparison between Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) Models
Madau, Fabio A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper aims to estimate technical and scale efficiency in the Italian citrus farming. Estimation was carried out from two different approach: a non parametric and a parametric approach using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model, respectively....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110765
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Failure of agricultural productivity growth in African French speaking countries
Nkamleu, Guy Blaise - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper examines changes in agricultural productivity in 8 French-speaking countries. The relative performance of …-year period 1970-2000, mathematical programming methods were used to measure Malmquist indexes of total factor productivity …. It was found that, during that period, total factor productivity have experienced a negative evolution in sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052199
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Assessing production efficiency of Islamic banks and conventional bank Islamic windows in Malaysia
Kamaruddin, Badrul Hisham; Safa, Mohammad Samaun; Mohd, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study presents new perspectives on performance evaluation of Islamic banking operations in Malaysia, by investigating for the first time, both cost and profit efficiency of full-fledged Islamic banks and Islamic window operations of domestic and foreign banks. The application of Data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621468
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Efficiency And Productivity Growth Across The Italian Regions: The Regional Divide Revisited
Pompei, Fabrizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a … decomposition of productivity growth, conducted by means of Malmquist’s index, highlighted that also in Southern regions, in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258688
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Analysing Productivity Changes Using the Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach: The Case of the Iranian Banking Industry
Arjomandi, Amir; Valadkhani, Abbas; Harvie, Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
individual banks, the efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that … productivity had positive growth before regulation mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260807
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Measuring efficiency of Tunisian schools in the presence of quasi-fixed inputs: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis approach
Essid, Hédi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-bootstrap approach with quasi-fixed inputs to estimate the precision of our measure. To do so, we developed a statistical model serving as the foundation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786928
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Measuring efficiency of Tunisian schools in the presence of quasi-fixed inputs: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis approach
Essid, Hédi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-bootstrap approach with quasi-fixed inputs to estimate the precision of our measure. To do so, we developed a statistical model serving as the foundation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619487
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Market Disciplining Role of Crisis on the Restructuring of the Turkish Banking Sector
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk; Ceyhan, Sanli Pinar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper aims to find the productivity change in the banking sector between 1990 and 2006, with an emphasis to the …. The productivity of the banking sector is found out to have increased, the main reason being technological improvement … rather than efficiency increase. For the cases of productivity decline, however, the changes come from the efficiency side …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619627