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Essays on hospital efficiency measurement
Kim Huong Nguyen - 2010
The overall objective of this thesis is to contribute to the existing knowledge of efficiency measurements through the exploration of efficiency modelling issues and practical applications of different efficiency analysis frameworks. More specifically, this objective will be achieved through a...
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Benchmarking firm performance from a multiple-stakeholder perspective with an application to Chinese banking
Avkiran, Necmi K.; Morita, Hiroshi - 2010
and outputs based on varying perspectives of five key stakeholders in banking. The versatile approach demonstrates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448131
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Analysing Productivity Changes Using the Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach: The Case of the Iranian Banking Industry
Arjomandi, Amir; Valadkhani, Abbas; Harvie, Charles - 2011
government regulation on the performance of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2003-2008. An alternative decomposition … comprehensive analysis of Iranian banking industry performance. While this approach is more appropriate than the traditional … Malmquist approach for banking efficiency studies, it has not previously been applied to any developing country’s banking system …
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Cost efficiency in Australian non-bank financial institutions: A non-parametric approach
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2000
A two-stage procedure is employed to evaluate non-bank financial institution cost efficiency. In the first stage, data envelopment analysis is used to calculate technical, allocative and cost efficiency indices using a sample of two hundred Australian credit unions. The results indicate that a...
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Measuring technical efficiency in Australian credit unions
Worthington, Andrew C. - 1999
Credit unions are small, co-operative, not-for-profit institutions; facts which usually distinguish them from other financial intermediaries. Whilst respecting the unique organisational and institutional features of credit unions, the present study also accepts the need for rigorous efficiency...
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Determinants of merger and acquisition activity in Australian cooperative deposit-taking institutions
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2004
A two-stage procedure is employed to evaluate the determinants of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in Australian credit unions over the period 1992/1993 to 1994/1995. In the first stage, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to calculate technical and scale efficiency indices for a sample...
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Cost Efficiency In Australian General Insurers: A Non-Parametric Approach
Worthington, Andrew C.; Hurley, Emily V. - 2002
Data envelopment analysis is used to calculate pure technical, scale, allocative and cost efficiency indices for a sample of forty-six Australian general insurers. The inputs used are labour, physical capital (in the form of both information technology and plant and equipment) and financial...
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Efficiency in pre-merger and post-merger non-bank financial institutions
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2001
A two-part process is employed to analyse the role of efficiency in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in Australian credit unions during the period 1993 to 1997. The measures of efficiency are derived using the nonparametric technique of data envelopment analysis. The first part uses panel...
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Measuring Efficiency in Local Government: An Analysis of New South Wales Municipalities’ Domestic Waste Management Function
Worthington, Andrew C.; Dollery, Brian E. - 2001
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the technical and scale efficiency of the domestic waste management function in 103 New South Wales’ local governments. After allowance is made for nondiscretionary environmental factors which may affect the provision of these local public...
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Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants
Sesmero, Juan P.; Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - 2011
We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into internal (technical and allocative) and boundary (marketing) sources. This decomposition allows us to evaluate the channels through which different plant characteristics affect plant...
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