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 …

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. …

rather than efficiency increase. For the cases of productivity decline, however, the changes come from the efficiency side …This paper aims to find the productivity change in the banking sector between 1990 and 2006, with an emphasis to the … Malmquist TFP Change Index and its mutually exclusive and exhaustive components of efficiency and technological changes over …

data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … decomposition into technical change and efficiency change components. The analysis is undertaken using the data envelopment analysis … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the …

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 …

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 … bank sector, finance and securities company sector and insurance company sector, and the efficiency in domestic and foreign …This study aims to investigate the efficiency in Thai financial sector after the financial crisis (1998 – 2004) by …

change. Furthermore, bank capitalization is positively related to efficiency change. Interestingly however, return on equity … 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 …

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 …