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Capacity utilisation and profitability: A decomposition of short-run profit efficiency
Coelli, T; Grifell-Tatje, E; Perelman, S - 2002
The principal aim of this paper is to measure the amount by which the profit of a multi-input, multi-output firm deviates from maximum short-run profit, and then to decompose this profit gap into components that are of practical use to managers. In particular, our interest is in the measurement...
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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 … efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that productivity had positive growth … before regulation, mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had an adverse impact on the …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437446
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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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Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants
Sesmero, Juan S.; Perrik, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - 2011
In the corn ethanol industry, the ability of plants to obtain favorable prices through marketing decisions is considered important for their overall economic performance. Based on a panel of surveyed of ethanol plants we extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency...
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