Efficiency is one of the most decisive factors in an industry’s productivity and competitiveness. However, Spanish and … international economic literature has given little attention to measuring efficiency in some fields of activity, like the lodging … industry due to the intangible nature of its services. The aim of this paper is to measure the technical efficiency of a sample …

españoles. La metodología frontera no paramétrica DEA se ha empleado para evaluar los niveles de eficiencia con los que operan … cambios en la eficiencia y el cambio técnico. / This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor … productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … banking sector applying different scientific methods. Nonparametric or parametric techniques, such as DEA with the Malmquist …

insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P …This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful … to estimating provisions for outstanding claims, as this factor is negatively influencing the efficiency of Takaful …

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to Major League Baseball salary and performance data from 1985 to 2006 in …

maximising efficiency in the deregulation period from 2001-02 to 2012-13. Several efficiency estimates viz., overall technical … efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of individual banks are calculated using Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA). The empirical findings indicate the presence of managerial and scale inefficiencies in the operation of the most of …

This work has proposed, as objectives, the analysis of the evolution of efficiency and its determinants through … nonparametric analysis DEA factors and use of the method by Simar and Wilson (2007) to companies belonging to 27 sectors of … improving efficiency levels across the board. The determinants of efficiency have been market concentration, market share and …

Efficiency analyses in the health care sector are often criticised for not incorporating quality variables. The … the use of resources in various Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. As the use of survey data implies that the quality … variables are measured with error, the assumptions underlying a DEA model are not strictly fulfilled. This paper focuses on ways …

Applications of the DEA models show that inadequate results may arise in some cases, two of these inadequacies being: a …) too many efficient units may appear in some DEA models; b) a DEA model may show an inefficient unit from the point of view … concept of a terminal unit is introduced for such units. A method for improving the adequacy of DEA models based on terminal …

This paper by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and statistical inference evaluates the citation performance of 229 … economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The … internals ranking and ABS quality ranking report) in a DEA setting and in order to derive the ranking of 229 economic journals …