Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a … non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian … territoriality. The achieved results show that the average efficiency of the Musical Societies stands at 72.66% and points out to the …

The main objective of this study is the identification of the explanatory factors on the differences in efficiency in … occurred in the 1999 - 2012 period. Moreover, a preliminary analysis is carried out to study levels and evolution of efficiency … and productivity. The results show that the average technical efficiency for this retail sector in the period under study …

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …

In this paper, our research question that could analyze how efficiency in Swedish financial enterprises has changed …) efficiency estimators. We predict cost function by employing panel stochastic frontier approach. These allow us to construct cost … efficiency. …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency, using data envelopment analysis, in eurobond issues fixed rate in …

This paper calculates the efficiency of senior residences in Saragossa and province by means of the Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA). The study of the efficiency has been divided in two stages: in the first one the efficiency of the productive … system of senior residences is calculated and analyzed, and in the second one, the relation between efficiency and the …

efficiency of a sample of boats which catch hake in Asturias. In this activity the catches of species different from hake are … variables, the efficiency indexes are calculated in a second stage using the individual fixed effects. The empirical analysis …

cross-country level of efficiency of health care expenditure, meaning that potential cost savings for the countries … policies and institutions in the OECD countries and the efficiency levels of health care systems. The findings are, however …, highly sensitive to the efficiency-estimation methodology used …