productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development … paths cannot be confirmed.It is also shown that the american civil war had rather less influence on manufacturing efficiency …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Efficiency measurement has been one of the most extensively explored areas of health services research over the past … two decades. Despite this attention, few studies have examined whether a provider’s efficiency varies on a monthly …. Using a quarterly panel of general, acute-care hospitals from Washington State, we find that hospital efficiency does vary …

This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especiallywhen non … individualscores to study school efficiency. My final essay applies a standard DEA model and theMalmquist productivity index to …