individual operational units. This study introduces a stochastic, multi-stage, optimization technique for short-term forecasting … definition of efficiency, and addresses the dimensionality issues of ANNs with minimum sample size requirements. …

provide a strategic planning tool for efficiency optimization applicable to short-term lag of data availability. For … every sample operational unit, even for the fully efficient ones, that may decide to alter the levels of the efficiency … determinants, respecting the t-time efficiency frontier. …

outperform the standard three low frequency survey measures in tests of accuracy, predictive power, and rationality, indicating …

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. …

This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid … measuring the labor productivity of each organization that provides services and comparing it to the benchmark. Two main results …

This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid … measuring the labor productivity of each organization that provides services and comparing it to the benchmark. Two main results …

The goal of the paper is to evaluate the impact of reducing the administrative costs on the efficiency in the public … productivity in the public sector. The theoretical results are empirical exemplified for a local service of public utility …

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 …

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 …