paper uses a two-stage efficiency model: (1) data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric model for measuring the …This paper aims to measure and analyze the efficiency of the US publicly-held insurance industry from 2011 to 2013. The … efficiency of 141 panel data of US publicly-held insurance firms, and (2) stochastic Tobit regression model for determining …

-learning systems in the ownership and intellectual property of educational materials. It has been inductively discovered that academics … institutions they are affiliated with. The main reasons for this mistrust are associated with perceptions of ownership and … ambiguities concerning this type of ownership and intellectual property, through the creation of clear institutional rules and …

In this research, the authors propose DEA (data envelopment analysis) profit efficiency models for production planning … varied output price (NOCMP-VOP) model. The authors apply these two DEA profit efficiency models to U.S. airline industry for … illustration. The developed NOCMP and NOCMP-VOP models in this study contribute to developments of both the DEA profit efficiency …

duration. In this research a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a Malmquist Index (MI) are combined with a double bootstrap … methodology to measure changes in Total Factor Productivity of general cropping farms in East Anglia. More specifically, the DEA … technique was used to measure the year by year efficiency score for the farms in the sample and the MI and its components used …

Electric Power Group Corp's power grid operation efficiency. And through analyzing the operational efficiency of each decision … unit by DEA, we analyze the adjustment direction of the input and output on the angle of horizontal, vertical and internal … efficiency in the last 15 years, the changing trends of the total factor productivities is found, and the successful experience …

There is no doubt the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a powerful method for the efficiency evaluation of Decision … Making Units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. Despite its usefulness, DEA has some notable limitations. A significant … purpose have been suggested. While, in the traditional method the first step for the DEA approach is used, and results of this …

This study aims to measure the performance and efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks in the MENA region and its … determinants. The authors use for this purpose the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and the analysis of the Stochastic … Frontier Analysis (SFA) method for calculating the technical efficiency scores. The results reveal similar trends for both …

evaluation of group buying websites in the country is still tiny. The paper used DEA combined with AHP to evaluate popular group … websites from four aspects. There are running efficiency, profit ability, popularity and customer satisfaction. Then they get …

original data in a broader analysis that primarily includes the cyberattacks against Ukraine during the 2013-2015 conflict, but …

The purpose of the study was to determine the efficiency and costs of energy biomass transportations, when using a …