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 …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agricultural enterprises during … their transition to a market economy in Ukraine. In this case the efficiency is calculated by data envelopment analysis and … technical efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the same time there is a high variation among individual …

The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a relatively new method to measure Technical Efficiency (TE). TE of a Decision …). Efficiency comparison become more complicated when market values of the Inputs and Outputs are not available and the figures are … efficiency analysis is especially important for the enterprises in the transformation process. In DEA the Linear Programming (LP …

This Discussion Paper has been occupied with the analysis of the technical and scale efficiency of Russian farms during … 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 …

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 … none of the previous papers on court efficiency has included a capital variable when defining their court production …

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach …. This paper presents efficiency scores based on an intertemporal frontier estimation for the period 1995 to 2004 and … efficiency by attenuating the incentive to innovate and to allocate resources efficiently. …

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 …

We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier methods in the financial … banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 … important to avoid misinterpretation about the status of efficiency of the total banking sector. Finally, despite ongoing …

effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …