is to analyze the effects of these organizational reforms on efficiency, productivity and technical change in 16 national … beneficial, although evidence of significantly higher efficiency levels and greater productivity growth is only found in …

The goal of this paper is to analyze changes in productivity and their relation with variations in citizens’ perceived …-2004. To assess changes in productivity the Malmquist indices and Data Envelopment Analysis methodology are used, completing … the analysis with bootstrap procedures. The average results show a rise in productivity accompanied by a drop in citizens …

This study investigated the efficiency and productivity change of a sample of food distribution units (MERCAs) in Spain … productivity change. The mean pure sales efficiency index was high, around 0.8, the mean scale index being 0,9. As appears from the … over the 1.997-1.999 period, applying non-parametric frontier methodology in a sales efficiency framework. We specified a …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate changes in productivity, technical efficiency and technology across the … economic sectors during the period 1985-2006. We also seek to identify the turning points for productivity growth to see … whether it was accompanied by technological change and/or technical efficiency. For estimating economic growth, aggregate …

the Luenberger productivity indicator (LPI) to the assessment of water companies' productivity growth. The advantage of … applying the Luenberger productivity indicator to the water industry in England and Wales or other countries. For the sake of … comparison, the traditional Malmquist productivity index (MPI) was also estimated. The results indicate that on average, a …

developed in European railways systems are working from the efficiency perspective. The main contribution of the paper is the … servir de referencia. Among the European policies focused on increasing the railways market share versus other transportation … use of a liberalization index that is related with efficiency indexes estimated by Programmatic Efficiency methodology …

restructuring measures on efficiency and productivity and the results are not totally unambiguous. However, while most of the papers … impact in terms of efficiency and productivity, the impact of vertical separation has produced different results in the … literature. The contribution of this paper to the existing literature is twofold. Firstly we estimate efficiency levels (using a …

is twofold. Firstly, we estimate efficiency levels derived from two alternative approaches: a non-parametric DEA analysis … results obtained in the literature are due to the different approaches used to measure efficiency. Secondly, we update the …