From its origin, the techniques for measuring efficiency in schools have been widely applied to evaluate public … expenditure in education. The aim of this study is to make a critic revision over the risks of performing efficiency analysis …

case of the Spanish ceramic tile industrial district the existence of significant differences in efficiency between the two …

countries. This paper provides evidence of significant differences in the cross-country level of efficiency of health care … efficiency levels of health care systems. The findings are, however, highly sensitive to the efficiency-estimation methodology …

and leader ports in their environment. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the Spanish …

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 …

population density, unemployment, homicide rates and property concentration have a lower efficiency score, whereas departments …

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms …

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 …