The aim of this article is to estimate the technical efficiency of the productive regional sectors and explore the … Malmquist productivity indexes that allow us to descompose productivity growth into efficiency change and technical progress …. Our results suggest that productive infrastructure allows to obtain gains in pure and scale technical efficiency that have …

This paper analyzes the relation between bank mergers and changes in the concentration and efficiency of the Venezuelan … Banking System during the period 1998-2005. Efficiency was estimated through a stochastic cost frontier model. The … that banking mergers did not produce efficiency increases; on the contrary, the merged banks were less efficient than non …

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 …

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, we characterize and study the efficiency of a representative set of firms in the leather and footwear …

work integration social enterprises as an evaluation of the efficiency of such projects. The proposed hypothesis links a …