efficiency of the firm in multifarious dimensions. Currently, rapid developments are occurring in telecom service sector. In such … paper starts with a conceptual DEA model followed by efficiency estimation. 'Assets' and 'expenses' are considered as inputs …. 'Profit after tax' and 'income' are taken as outputs. Four efficiencies named technical efficiency (TE), scale efficiency (SE …

A method is developed to integrate the efficiency concepts of technical, allocative, and scale inefficiencies (TI, AI … maintained properties of a data generating process. The potential estimation efficiency gain arises from exploiting sample … correlations among TI, AI, and SI. Application to Maryland dairy production data finds that technical efficiency is on average 5 …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the global primary aluminum industry. Efficiency is here … used in the efficiency estimations. In order to assess and contrast the performance of smelters at different locations … technology used will also be evaluated in terms of the above efficiency measures. For each region, measures of potential …

The aim of this study is to develop a performance model for measuring relative efficiency and potential improvement … capabilities of Nepali banks by scrutinizing intermediation aspects. For measuring the efficiency and performance, this paper uses … fulfill its objectives. This paper seeks to measure and analyze the efficiency levels of banks in Nepal during 2007-08 to 2010 …

purely technical efficiency, (2) a measure of input congestion (overutilization of some input(s)) and (3) a measure of scale …The purpose of this paper is to apply a generalized version of the Farrell measure of technical efficiency to a sample … efficiency. This approach has the advantage that it provides additional information on the sources of inefficiency of production …

apple production efficiency in Shaanxi become big issues. The objectives of this paper are to investigate the technical … efficiency (TE) and cost efficiency (CE) of apple orchard and to analyse determinants which affect apple production efficiency … objectives. In the first-stage, a cost minimization model is applied to measure apple production efficiency. Then, a Tobit model …

efficiency during the post-reform period 2000-2005. The paper follows the procedures set by Isik and Hassan (2003) by omitting … findings suggest that the State Owned Commercial Banks' technical efficiency are enhanced attributed to improvement in scale … efficiency, the Joint Stock Commercial Banks have exhibited a higher levels of technical efficiency attributed to improvement in …

underlying the delivery of rural credit in China. This paper evaluates pure technical efficiency, overall technical efficiency … inference on efficiency measures. …

scale efficiency. The results suggest that the merger has resulted in a higher mean technical efficiency of the Malaysian … relatively more technically efficient. The empirical findings also suggest that the acquiring banks' mean technical efficiency …