This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures … and outlines key areas of interest inthis context, such as efficiency measures, components of efficiency and the … measuring productivity and efficiency in a non-technical manner. Variousparametric as well as non parametric approaches are …

more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to …. Based on the concept of pareto efficiency, it computes an efficiency score where the associated weights of the inputs and … outputs are determined endogenously. The DEA efficiency scores are then used as explanatory variables in panel data …

in analyses of productive efficiency. Thedistributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of … applied in analyses of productive efficiency. Thedistributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of …

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the … firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output …-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit technical efficiency space and which does not require information on input prices. To …

Schätzverfahren "DataEnvelopment Analysis (DEA)" verwendet, das die Gesamteffizienz, die Skaleneffizienz und dietechnische (X-)Effizienz …'s CreditFunds in Vietnam wird anhand der Bilanz- und Erfolgszahlen für das Jahr 2000 bewertet.Faktoren, von denen ein Einfluss auf … die X-Effizienz vermutet wird, werden anhand des Tobit-Modells und der DEA-Bootstrap-Regression (DBR) ermittelt..... …

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non … significant positiveassociation between hospital size and efficiency, and that competitive pressure had a significant … negativeimpact on hospital efficiency. …

is a first attempt to incorporate the relative economic efficiency of hospitals into the capacity planning process. The …

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Ein brauchbarer Ansatz zur Messung der Effizienz im Marketing? So fragen Backhaus …