This study focuses on the technical and economic efficiency achieved in two local public service sectors … relative levels of efficiency according to different point of views: "business", "social" and "mixed" models. Anyway in this … focuses on the waste services; we estimated the economic and technological efficiency by comparing the city of Perugia to …

the empirical application of the efficiency and effectiveness of the ICT at the regional (NUTS 2) level in the EU is … by a relatively low efficiency rate of transforming information society progress into educational outputs …

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 … student in Croatia could have resulted in a relatively better performance regarding the outputs/outcomes, i.e. a higher rate …

The present article deals with the theme of efficiency in healthcare and especially technical efficiency in psyaciatric … hospital care. We used the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA), which finds increasing application in many spheres of … technical efficiency for each group. We present a possible assesment method, which provides an opportunity for improving …

This paper estimates the technical efficiency of a set of Argentinean firms in the electric distribution sector for the … period 1994-2001. The efficiency measurement involves the application of two methods: one non-parametric and the other … parametric. The first one is DEA and the second one is the distance functions. Additionally, we focus on the construction of the …

Bulgaria, the efficiency of research and development activities is particularly important, since technological progress is one … countries and marginal regions must close the gap with more developed regions. The paper analyzes research efficiency at the … regional level for NUTS2 regions from Romania and Bulgaria between 2003 and 2005, applying a DEA framework. Our main finding is …

efficiency of Portuguese prison facilities by means of the non-parametric benchmarking approach of data envelopment analysis (DEA … relevant. These circumstances together emphasize the importance of assessing the prisons’ performance. This study measures the …

interest of research over its efficiency. This paper aims to assess the performance of the Portuguese hospitals and … influence of the congestion effect on efficiency. The heavy burden of the health sector on the state budget brings about the … particularly the contribution of the congestion effect. We use the non-parametric technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for …

impossible. On the other hand, the performance of players in international tournaments, like the FIFA world cup at the national …