">1957</CitationRef>), researchers have developed several methods for measuring efficiency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives …

This paper analyses the productive efficiency of 141 public hospitals from 1998 to 2004 in two Canadian provinces; one … changes in productivity during this time period, and the relationship between efficiency and the size or scale of the … of ‘own’ and ‘meta’ technical efficiency frontiers, we demonstrate that efficient units in the larger and more urban …

lower bound of the efficiency scores. Most importantly, efficiency measured with respect to EFs—the EF based efficiency … disposal of incoming variables, and the EF based efficiency index captures the net efficiency of a unit. EF is found to be a … useful tool also to search a suitable set of variables for efficiency measurement. Its use is demonstrated with Finnish …

A new procedure for the measurement of efficiency and technical change is presented, using DEA with three … assumed that technology remained unchanged, so productivity change was entirely attributed to technical efficiency change …. However, patterns of technology change and the decomposition into efficiency and technical change elements can be accomplished …