, the efficiency of higher education institutions is increasingly coming into focus. Since the 2000s, more and more studies … on the efficiency of German universities have been published. While the research focus and the applied methods differ … aim of this paper was to show differences and commonalities in efficiency between universities of applied sciences and …

The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that … of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data Envelopment Analysis, to analyze the potential efficiency gains from … hypothetical mergers between water utilities at the county level. A conditional efficiency framework is applied to account for the …

This paper aims to examine the relative efficiency of German engineering firms using a sample of roughly 23 …-growth, it is expected that a majority of firms is operating quite efficiently and that the density of efficiency scores is … whether these firms are the most efficient ones. Finally an increasing efficiency gap between size classes over time is …

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a … energy generation technology, but natural gas fired power plants clearly have the highest efficiency. Furthermore, the …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

that operate partially on a joint tram network. Merger gains are then decomposed into individual technical efficiency …

The paper investigates the impact of subsidies and of para-agriculture on the technical efficiency of organic farms in … results show almost no efficiency differences among the farms in the three countries. Para-agriculture shows a strong impact … 2005. Technical efficiency is modelled using a stochastic distance-frontier model combined with a Metafrontier-model. The …