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 …

. Using a quarterly panel of general, acute-care hospitals from Washington State, we find that hospital efficiency does vary …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 …

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 …, may not play an important role in determiningefficiency scores. This implies that one may not need access to panel data on … individualscores to study school efficiency. My final essay applies a standard DEA model and theMalmquist productivity index to …

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 … units are compared with each other. The comparison is based on the size of inputs and outputs. In case of an inefficient … unit, there is a possible of ordaining necessary changes for achievement of the efficiency frontier. There is a problem …

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 …

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