We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit … total effect into the frontier shift and efficiency improvement, we found that, on average, around 11 percent of the … improvements in technical efficiency. The efficiency gain was higher for modern hybrid rice varieties, and almost zero for …

. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the …

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical … efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton … result in reducing technical efficiency. The mean technical efficiency of the models is around 80 percent. Variations in the …