efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that productivity had positive growth … efficiency level of state-owned banks. The bootstrap approach demonstrates that the majority of estimates obtained in this study …This study employs various bootstrapped Malmquist indices and efficiency scores to investigate the effects of …

This study examines technical efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) using a two-stage approach and bootstrap … second stage, efficiency scores are regressed on environmental variables using a truncated regression with bootstrap …. Alternatively, a double bootstrap procedure is used, where bias-corrected DEA efficiency scores, obtained by means of bootstrap in …

productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … efficiency. Analyzing the determinants of labor productivity in Russia the results suggest a strong positive influence of … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development …

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregatethe technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … productivity change is measured by theMalmquist Productivity Change Index in the period between 1990 and 1999. On average … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises …

The first chapter investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In an empirical …-2004 is used. The technical efficiency of the firms is estimated using distribution free assumption and then it is relates to … for another 25 percent and the headquarter's location explains ten percent of the variation in efficiency. Most other firm …

the efficiency. In this paper, the level of efficiency represents the level of life quality. The efficiency (quality of … efficiency score, DEA method provides weights of particular inputs and outputs. These weights are used to find contributions of … time, we have observed a possible connection between the achieved efficiency score and the average prices of dwellings in …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used as a tool for technical efficiency evaluation of decision making units. These … unit, there is a possible of ordaining necessary changes for achievement of the efficiency frontier. There is a problem … (Weighted Slack-based measure of efficiency model; Generic directional distance model) have been developed to eliminate this …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used as a tool for technical efficiency evaluation of decision- making units. The … units are compared with each other, which means to compare inputs, outputs and evaluate their efficiency. In case of non-efficiency … unit, we can ordain necessary changes for achievement of efficiency using the DEA methods. One of the necessary conditions …

Pig production is a very important branch around the world. The paper deals with technical efficiency of pig farms … units, where the presence of multiple inputs and outputs makes comparison difficult. Besides evaluation of efficiency, the … article is concentrated on an application of the Super Efficiency model. This model is aimed at the comparisons of effective …