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Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique
Monteiro, Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 155-174
levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … provide measures of firms' technical efficiency. These measures rank the firms by looking at their apparent performances over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427249
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities
Førsund, Finn R.; Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands for the year 1997 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284240
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International Benchmarking of Electricity Distribution Utilities
Førsund, Finn R; Edvardsen, Dag F. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands for the year 1997 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628198
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities.
Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld; Førsund, Finn R. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands for the year 1997 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005427050
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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300255
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Efficiency Analysis of Lloyd's Syndicates: A Comparison of DEA and SFA Approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725323
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Efficiency, productivity, and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry
Cummins, John David; Xie, Xiaoying - 2011 - This draft: December 30, 2011
The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … significant gains in total factor productivity, and there is an upward trend in scale and allocative efficiency. More diversified …
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Quality Production and Quality Indicators in Intermediate Products
Zago, Angelo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2004
The paper proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences. The quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264973
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Quality Production and Quality Indicators in Intermediate Products
Zago, Angelo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2004
The paper proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences. The quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641912
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Does intermunicipal cooperation increase efficiency? : evidence from the Hessian wastewater sector
Blaeschke, Frédéric; Haug, Peter - 2014
This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Envelopment Analysis) bootstrap approach to calculate relative efficiency measures … municipalities score lower in terms of technical efficiency than self-providing and contracting municipalities. The scope for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438114