as the importance of increased efficiency and transportability; privacy, security, and access concerns; quality …

evaluations of the relative efficiency of management accomplishments, however they may have been planned or executed. Mathematical …

a decomposition of productivity differentials into three components---differences in technical efficiency, differences … in scale efficiency, and differences in congestion. Identification of these three components provides an aid to …

This paper develops the first operational tests of portfolio efficiency based on the general stochastic dominance (SD … dominate a given evaluated return vector by first- and second-order SD. This allows us to derive simple SD efficiency measures … and test statistics, computable by standard mathematical programming algorithms. The SD tests and efficiency measures are …

planning. Usually, efficiency is measured by using accounting ratios, such as labor productivity, capital productivity, return …

scenarios are evaluated with respect to efficiency in land and water use and equity in income distribution. Results reveal that … efficiency (resource use) and equity (income distribution) are associated with (1) a shift of water to the lower zone, and (2 …

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms …