efficiency by applying a non-parametric methodology. In this respect, the purpose of the article is to review some previous … studies on measuring the efficiency of public (secondary) education sector as well as some conceptual and methodological … issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then …

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 university students dropouts. The efficiency analysis, using Data …

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 … banks reached 33 percent of the total banks compared to 25 percent in 2008. The fall in technical efficiency in 2008 is due …

developed to extend the measurement of total factor productivity and its components (technical progress and technical efficiency …

correlation between one input and the true efficiency level, significantly and severely biases DEA performance. … econometrics literature. Although non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA) are among the most used techniques … for measuring technical efficiency, the effects of endogeneity on such efficiency estimates have received little attention …

aim of this paper is to study the relative technical efficiency of Spanish technology institutes in the realization of one … of its main activities: R&D activities, and the determinants of technical efficiency differences between TIs. Some … conclusions from this work are the relationships between the level of technical efficiency in the R&D activities of IT and the …

reforms. We use DEA to compute the relative technical efficiency of banks that participated in M&A activities. The technical …This paper explores the impact of M&A on technical efficiency of Indian commercial banks during the second decade of … efficiency is computed under both 'common' and 'separate' frontier with the assumption of 'constant' as well as 'variable …

establish an accurate risk-return ratio. The efficiency of banks involved in the shipping industry is particularly important … shipping companies. This paper presents an effort to assess the shipping banks’ efficiency, and the determination of those … factors which affect their technical efficiency, through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis. The results of this …

objectively evaluate the efficiency of 42 top scorers who have played in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) over a period of six … years, based on official match-play “multi-input and output” statistics, using input- and output oriented DEA models. …

The paper applies a non-parametric approach, i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), to assess the relative technical … efficiency of higher education across countries, with a particular focus on Croatia and Slovenia. When estimating the efficiency … system in Slovenia is shown to have a much higher level of efficiency compared to both Croatia and many other comparable EU …