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Cross-country efficiency of secondary education provision: a semi-parametric analysis with non-discretionary inputs
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2005
We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the educational system of 25, mostly OECD, countries with resources employed (teachers per student, time spent at school). We estimate a semi-parametric model of the education production...
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Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: Main drivers and policy implications
Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: Latin American Economic Review 24 (2015) 1, pp. 1-28
, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student …
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Consequences of the IPPC-directive's BAT requirements for abatement costs and emissions
Larsson, Jan; Telle, Kjetil - 2005
increases in costs. Data Envelopment Analyses (DEA) is used to construct a frontier of all efficient plants. This provides us …
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Efficiency Container Ports In Brazil: A DEA And FDH Approach
Cabral, Alexandra Maria Rios; Ramos, Francisco S. - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 1, pp. 43-64
Aim: This study aims to evaluate the technical efficiency of 44 Brazilian port terminals that handled containers in 2016. The evaluation will first proceed by identifying the main benchmarks. It will then provide an analysis of variables that may have an effect on technical efficiency as well as...
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Evaluation of technical efficiency in financial dimension of private medical entities in Podkarpackie voivodship: DEA approach
Leśniowska-Gontarz, Małgorzata - In: Financial Internet Quarterly 17 (2021) 2, pp. 24-31
results of research study on technical efficiency of 33 medical entities using the Data Envelopment Analysis method (DEA …
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The efficiency of banks and stock performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
Alsharif, Mohammad - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
efficiencies and three technical efficiencies). This study employs the data envelopment analysis (DEA) on all listed Saudi …
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Analyzing the Efficiency of County Road Provision - Evidence from Eastern German Counties
Fritzsche, Carolin - 2018
This study analyzes the efficiency of the road provision of the local governments of eastern German counties using data envelopment analysis. The provision of roads is a costly public service, which makes an efficiency analysis in this field an interesting subject. I enhance the previous...
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Output quality and sources of profit change in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...
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Efficiency and productivity in the operational units of the armed forces
Hanson, Torbjørn - 2012
Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production process of an operational unit, productivity and efficiency are … addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment … estimated by DEA for units of one branch of the Norwegian armed forces. Small samples are a characteristic of DEA studies in the …
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Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique
Monteiro, Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 155-174
levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … a period of time. DEA is a frontier model which is non-parametric since no functional specification or form is required …
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