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Product Specialization, Efficiency and Productivity Change in the Spanish Insurance Industry
Fuentes, Hugo; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili; Perelman, Sergio - Centre de Recherche en Économie Publique et de la … - 2005
In this paper we analyze the levels of technical efficiency and productivity growth attained by Spanish insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636134
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities
Førsund, Finn R.; Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands for the year 1997 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284240
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Bayesian approach to disentangling technical and environmental productivity
Malikov, Emir; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Tsionas, Efthymios G. - In: Econometrics 3 (2015) 2, pp. 443-465
index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011755288
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Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique
Monteiro, Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 155-174
levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … provide measures of firms' technical efficiency. These measures rank the firms by looking at their apparent performances over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427249
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities.
Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld; Førsund, Finn R. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands for the year 1997 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005427050
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Bayesian approach to disentangling technical and environmental productivity
Malikov, Emir; Kumbhakar, Subal; Tsionas, Efthymios G. - In: Econometrics : open access journal 3 (2015) 2, pp. 443-465
index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297619
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Inefficiency Measurement
Chambers, Christopher P. - 2013
We introduce an ordinal model of efficiency measurement. Our primitive is a notion of e ciency that is comparative, but … not cardinal or absolute. In this framework, we postulate axioms that we believe an ordinal efficiency measure should … satisfy. Primary among these are choice consistency and planning consistency, which guide the measurement of efficiency in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092073
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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300255
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Efficiency Analysis of Lloyd's Syndicates: A Comparison of DEA and SFA Approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725323
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Efficiency, productivity, and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry
Cummins, John David; Xie, Xiaoying - 2011 - This draft: December 30, 2011
The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … significant gains in total factor productivity, and there is an upward trend in scale and allocative efficiency. More diversified …
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