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Efficiency analyses in the health care sector are often criticised for not incorporating quality variables. The definition of quality of primary health care has many aspects, and it is inevitably also a question of the patients’ perception of the services received. This paper uses variables...
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analysis and a Malmquist productivity index. The estimates are biascorrected using a bootstrap approach recently developed for …
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service activities carried out by tax offices are specified. A bootstrap approach recently developed for DEA models is applied …
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analyze the global efficiency of the municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt, for the first time in this context, using a double-bootstrap … globale Effizienz der Gemeinden in Sachsen-Anhalt unter Anwendung eines doppelten Bootstrap-Verfahrens, das Data Envelopment …
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to survive. We employ the Simar-Wilson (2007) two-step double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method to measure …
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. We employ non-parametric bootstrap DEA to measure technical efficiency among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. In …
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one input and one output, and previous bootstrap methods proposed for inference have not been proven consistent, making … result is then used to prove that two different bootstrap procedures (one based on sub-sampling, the other based on smoothing …) provide consistent inference. The smooth bootstrap requires smoothing the irregularly-bounded density of inputs and outputs as …
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find that, by using the bootstrap technique to estimate confidence intervals, we can point at the uncertainty of the …
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This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Vietnamese agriculture using panel data from 60 provinces in Vietnam during 1985-2000 when Vietnam implemented widespread de-collectivization, trade liberalization, and reformed her...
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analysis output scores on nondiscretionary variables, both using Tobit and a single and double bootstrap procedure, we show …
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