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Environmental externalities and regulation constrained cost productivity growth in the US electric utility industry

Granderson, Gerald; Prior, Diego - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 39 (2013) 3, pp. 243-257

efficiency. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013 …

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Technology-based total factor productivity and benchmarking : new proposals and an application

Epure, Mircea; Kerstens, Kristiaan; Prior, Diego - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 39 (2011) 6, pp. 608-619

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How much do companies know what contributes to education?

Arbona, Alexei; López-Estrada, Sebastian; Prior, Diego; … - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 74 (2023) 12, pp. 2593-2605

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Local government efficiency : determinants and spatial interdependence

Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Brun-Martos, Maria Isabel; … - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 14, pp. 1478-1494

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A multilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques

Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 104-121

We propose a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Our estimation considers idiosyncratic variables at the school, class, and student levels. Our...

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Earnings quality and performance in the banking industry: A profit frontier approach

Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Illueca, Manuel; … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

The analysis of efficiency and productivity in banking has received a great deal of attention for almost three decades … now. However, most of the existing literature to date has not explicitly accounted for risk when measuring efficiency. We … propose an analysis of profit efficiency taking into account how the inclusion of a variety of bank risk measures might bias …

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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units

Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …

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Assessing Technology-based Spin-offs from University Support Units

Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess the efficiency of technology-based spin-offs that benefited from … associated with higher efficiency.Concluding remarks focus on regional policy making and future research directions. …

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DO PARENTS PERCEIVE THE TECHNICAL QUALITY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS? AN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS APPROACH

López-Torres, Laura; Prior, Diego - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 13 (2013) 3, pp. 39-60

This paper analyzes the level of “technical” quality public schools and determines whether or not there are discrepancies between this indicator and parents’ subjective perception of quality. A sample of public schools in Catalonia is surveyed. The results show that parents correctly...

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A comparison of public and private schools in Spain using robust nonparametric frontier methods

Cordero, José Manuel; Prior, Diego; Simancas … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper uses an innovative approach to evaluate educational performance of Spanish students in PISA 2009. Our purpose is to decompose their overall inefficiency between different components with a special focus on studying the differences between public and state subsidized private schools....

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