individualscores to study school efficiency. My final essay applies a standard DEA model and theMalmquist productivity index to …This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especiallywhen non …-discretionary inputs exist. A new approach of the multi-stage Data EnvelopmentAnalysis (DEA) for non-discretionary inputs, statistical …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic production frontier (SPF) models are alternative methods … provide a comparative analysis of DEA and SPF capacity estimates for a variety of possible capacity concepts using a panel … data set for 10 vessels in the U.S. Northwest Atlantic scallop fishery. We find that DEA capacity output measures are …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach,' the methodology was applied to a substantial sample of the Dutch beam trawler fleet. Beam …

theproductivity of new technologies and, in addition, by the efficiency with whichtechnologies are used (technical efficiency) and … output and inputs are combined(economic efficiency). This study estimates the technical and economic efficiency ofseven … envelopment analysis (DEA) and investigatesboth the drivers and implications of inefficiency differentials. In terms of drivers …

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 …

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

efficiency score, DEA method provides weights of particular inputs and outputs. These weights are used to find contributions of …, according to the selected criteria by the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. This method was initially proposed to evaluate … the efficiency. In this paper, the level of efficiency represents the level of life quality. The efficiency (quality of …