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Productivity change in Italian airports
Gitto, Simone; Mancuso, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the total factor productivity of 28 Italian airports during 2000–2006 using non-parametric estimation methods. Moreover, non-parametric inference and hypothesis test on the Malmquist index and its two main components, efficiency and technological change, have been carried...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360281
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How far are Portuguese prisons inefficient? A non-parametric approach
Marques, Rui; Simões, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
efficiency of Portuguese prison facilities by means of the non-parametric benchmarking approach of data envelopment analysis (DEA …). However, due to the limitations of this technique, a bootstrap methodology is also applied in order to add more robustness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497668
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On testing equality of distributions of technical efficiency scores
Simar, Leopold; Zelenyuk, Valentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
literature, known as data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. This opens a wide range of possibilities for a well …-grounded statistical inference about the true efficiency scores from their DEA-estimates. In this paper we investigate possibility of using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794662
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Ownership, Productivity Change in the Australian Urban Water Sector: a Bootstrap Malmquist indices approach
Ananda, Jayanath; Gitto, Simone; Mancuso, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper provides a comprehensive productivity analysis of 53 Australian water service providers during the period 2006-2012. Pressures for sector reform have stimulated interest in identifying and understanding the factors that can contribute to improve the performance of Australian water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108009
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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322640
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Measuring relative efficiency of secondary education in selected EU and OECD countries: the case of Slovenia and Croatia
Aristovnik, Aleksander; Obadić, Alka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267849
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Measuring Italian university efficiency: a non-parametric approach
Monaco, Luisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This work analyses the performance of Italian universities taking into account technical efficiency. The study provides an assessment of levels of technical efficiency taking into account also environmental factors. We focus on the relationship between levels of technical efficiency and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259512
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Technical efficiency analysis of banks in major oil exporting Middle East countries
Onour, Ibrahim; Abdalla, Abdelgadir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates efficiency performance of thirty six banks operating in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during the period 2006-2008 . Our results indicate in general GCC banks showed considerable pure technical efficiency in the past three years with the year 2007 exhibit the...
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International comparison of Environmental performance
Dubrocard, Anne; Prombo, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In order to take into account the effects of production on the environment and, more generally, the urgency of finding a path of sustainable development many attempts have been made to set productivity growth measurements, including the negative impact of pollution, the production of goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109725
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Dealing with the Endogeneity Problem in Data Envelopment Analysis
Cordero, José Manuel; Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
econometrics literature. Although non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA) are among the most used techniques … Carlo experiment to analyze how different levels of positive and negative endogeneity can impair DEA estimations. We … conclude that although DEA is robust to negative endogeneity, a high positive endogeneity level, i.e., a high positive …
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