Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …

countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

Efficiency and quality of services are crucial to today's banking industries. The competition in this section has … literature as of an efficiency measurement tool and finding benchmarks, it is on the other hand unable to demonstrate the … in this paper to calculate the relative efficiency and more reliable benchmarks of one of the Iranian commercial bank …

-affects efficiency and how firm size moderates this relationship. The mean efficiency scores by which the competitiveness output can be … optimized is 47.43%. The results suggest that the configuration of competitive pillars has important implications for efficiency … detrimental to efficiency. Also, a configuration of competitive pillars in which one or various competitive strengths prevail is …

the process of internal efficiency benchmarking of a firm’s sales representatives aimed at identifying strong and weak … DEA benchmarking that simply uses raw sales calls as input measures, the proposed model that uses more ‘processing’ of the … sales response data to derive working smart and hard input measures shows much larger potential for efficiency improvement …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … detect a significant efficiency enhancing effect of benchmarking, we find insignificant merger economies due to the absence … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …

Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving … increasing attention in the academic as well as in the public discourse. Against this background we analyze the efficiency of 72 … efficiency of higher education. Our main finding is that East German universities have performed better in total factor …

The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …, increasing prices of operational resources as soon as decreasing producer prices effected lower efficiency in both countries. In …