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 …

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 …. However, the umbrella theme uniting them is measuring productivity and efficiency of hospitals. Quantifying the effects of …

banking system in order to improve its efficiency and reliability. This study employs both parametric stochastic frontier … analysis (SFA) and non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods to assess and evaluate the cost efficiency of Chinese … preferred frontier model which are adopted in our efficiency analysis. The preferred model specification for our sample is the …

Technical efficiency, which measures how well a firm transforms inputs into outputs, gives fishery managers important … envelopment analysis (DEA), and the stochastic production frontier (SPF) have emerged as preferred methods to estimate efficiency …

The main thrust of this research is to measure the relative technical efficiency of the six (6) colleges of San Pedro … College from school year 2004-2014. The technical efficiency of the academic units can be derived based on its ability to … Accounting and Business in 2014. In terms of technical efficiency, all departments are technically-efficient during 2014. The …

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 …

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 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 …