This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders. …

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 …

Die Effizienz der Hochschulen in den Flächenländern Ost und West liegt im Durchschnitt auf annähernd gleichem Niveau … Universitäten und Fachhochschulen. Zur Bestimmung der Effizienz werden zwei Ansätze, die Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) sowie die …

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

In der Literatur zur Effizienz von Hochschulen werden entweder die eingeworbenen Drittmittel oder die Anzahl der … Indikatoren zu einer ähnlichen oder unterschiedlichen Einschätzung der Effizienz von Universitäten führen. Die Ergebnisse weisen …

efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with a look at the general development of the literature, before … the input and output variables, as well as the determinants of efficiency, are discussed in detail. Based on the insights … present study provides the first systematic review on the usage of the stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency in …

We assess the public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000-2019, computing Data … Envelopment Analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio …

assumed in mainstream production theory and general equilibrium. On the other hand, in many empirical applications, the … measures of efficiency provide also indicators of convexity. Illustrations through simulated and real data (mutual funds …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …