use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to determine the utilities' technical efficiency scores … efficiency scores even after accounting for significant structural variables like network density, share of groundwater usage and …

countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and …

performance. The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related to factors such as farm type, farm … эффективность рассчитывается с помощью анализа оболочки данных (англ. data envelopment analysis, DEA), а изменение продуктивности …This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agricultural enterprises during …

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a relatively new method to measure Technical Efficiency (TE). TE of a Decision … efficiency analysis is especially important for the enterprises in the transformation process. In DEA the Linear Programming (LP …) is used to determine relative efficiency of the analysed enterprises. The basic principles of the DEA are introduced in …

methodical instrument has been chosen an input-oriented model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for efficiency measurement as … model calculations show an improvement in average efficiency from 1993 to 2000. In consideration of the performance …-orientiertes Modell der Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) zur Effizienzanalyse sowie DEA-Supereffizienzmodell zur Identifikation von …

that operate partially on a joint tram network. Merger gains are then decomposed into individual technical efficiency …

Instance Courts (FIC), as they form the active cell of the Egyptian judicial system. However the efficiency of FICs is still … doubtable to a large extent. This paper provides for the first time an efficiency analysis of 22 FICs in Egypt using the … technique of Data Envelop Analysis (DEA). The main strength of this study is to consider the number of computers per court, as …

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the … firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output …-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit – technical efficiency space – and which does not require information on input prices. To …

This paper explores the consequences for parametric and non-parametric efficiency levels and rankings when using … the estimated efficiency levels and rankings. These results are illustrated with an empirical example using a sample of …

power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency …This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background … of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory …