The economic transition and market globalization processes has triggered structural changes in the Macedonian agriculture. Pig producers face challenges to meet the new market requirements and regulations which cause inefficient and less competitive production compared to foreign markets. This...

The main purpose of the present paper is to investigate the impact of the global financial crisis on the efficiency of Greek banks during the period 2008-2010. The DEA model is applied according to input oriented approach in order to measure the technical and the scale efficiency scores of 20...

We discuss how to properly decompose economic efficiency when the underlying technology is non-homothetic using alternative allocative and technical efficiency criteria. We first show that only under the production of one output and assuming the particular case of constant returns to scale...

The study provides new empirical evidence on the efficiency of a dual compared to a single banking sector. Using data on the Indian and Pakistani banking sectors, we analyse the efficiency of both banking sectors in the recent financial crises of 2004-2010. We employ the Data Envelopment...

This paper seeks to explain the lagging productivity in Singapore's manufacturing noted in the statements of the Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) Report 2010. Two methods are employed: the Malmquist productivity to measure total factor productivity (TFP) change and Simar and Wilson's (2007)...

In this paper we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate technical efficiency for a sample of 1742 Australian dairy farms. Bearing in mind data limitations we find that average technical efficiency is 59 per cent, but there are significant regional differences. These results reflect...

Parmi les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale entrés dans l’Union européenne (UE) en mai 2004, la Pologne est le plus grand pays agricole. L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner la structure économique des exploitations polonaises individuelles et, en particulier, d’évaluer leur...

By this paper we intend to analyze the existing gap in the efficiency of R&D investment, at European level. The method employed in this respect is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The evaluation of the performance in R&D in European countries, in terms of technical efficiency (TE) thus...

Parmi les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale entrés dans l’Union européenne (UE) en mai 2004, la Pologne est le plus grand pays agricole. L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner la structure économique des exploitations polonaises individuelles et, en particulier, d’évaluer leur...

Parmi les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale entrés dans l’Union européenne (UE) en mai 2004, la Pologne est le plus grand pays agricole. L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner la structure économique des exploitations polonaises individuelles et, en particulier, d’évaluer leur...