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 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 …

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 …

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 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 …