literature is mixed with regard to the claimed expenditure reductions and efficiency gains from municipal mergers. We therefore … analyze the global efficiency of the municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt, for the first time in this context, using a double …-bootstrap procedure combining Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and truncated regression. This allows including environmental variables to …

methodical instrument has been chosen an input-oriented model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for efficiency measurement as … Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die Auswirkungen der Reformen und die Veränderungen in den Agrarunternehmen zu …-orientiertes Modell der Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) zur Effizienzanalyse sowie DEA-Supereffizienzmodell zur Identifikation von …

development. In order to measure the quality of financial development we use profit efficiency derived from stochastic frontier …

In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a … and, thus, produce railway services with a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production … is more efficient, we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

. We employ non-parametric bootstrap DEA to measure technical efficiency among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. In … suggest that there has been a tendency towards improvement in bank efficiency levels for the largest banks. The findings show …Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency to survive …

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 …

The performance of local tax offices of Norway is studied over a three year period applying Data Envelopment Efficiency … DEA models. The results show that bias correction and the construction of confidence intervals give a quite different …

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 …

analysis (DEA) and does not demand any price estimation for environmental impacts using traditional revealed or stated … preference methods. We show that DEA can be modified to the context of CBA by using absolute shadow prices instead of … of ECBA. We illustrate the application of the DEA approach to ECBA by means of a hypothetical numerical example where a …