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

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 …

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 …

-Atlantic and Asia-Pacific markets. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models were developed to compare the efficiency of five low … opportunities. However, researchers have yet to evaluate and compare the relative efficiency of LCLH carriers in this competitive … business environment. The purpose of this paper was to determine the relative efficiency of LCLH carriers in the Trans …

set of variables to analyse. This work proposes a model based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a linear … programming technique able to manipulate multiple inputs and outputs. DEA allows the identification of the most efficient …. This work is a major contribution for measuring efficiency in IT outsourcing operations. …

based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency when facing multiple …, especially in terms of environmental efficiency. In this article, the authors have empirically explored socio-economic efficiency … way, both measurement of countries' performance and the nonparametric approach of DEA have been given deserved attention …

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 …

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 …