efficiency in production. The application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the same …

This paper examines the technical efficiency and productivity of 81 firms of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The … study found that technical efficiency and productivity are higher in the product patent regime than in the process patent … regime. The analysis of Malmquist productivity index indicates that despite regression in technical change, firms …

Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is … probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly … regulations across states would boost competition and productivity.<P>Un nouvel élan pour la productivité en Australie …

that area at the minimum operating cost. Our DEA results show that while in many cases, consolidating multiple branches …

issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then …

, which was examined using non-parametric DEA method. The author developed four types of the bank activities, half of which … technical efficiency, scale and determinants of changes in the efficiency calculated using the Malmquist productivity index …

relationship between schooling inputs and cognitive skills, due to incentive effects. We then use a two-stage DEA approach to …

We reconsider the motivation of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the non-parametric technique that is widely employed … conventional engineering motivation of DEA can be problematic since it often builds on unverifiable production axioms. We then … provide a dual viewpoint and highlight the ‘behavioral’ interpretation of DEA models. We start from a specification of the …