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 …

cambios en la eficiencia y el cambio técnico. / This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor …En este trabajo se analizan la eficiencia nacional y regional y la productividad total de los factores de los hoteles … españoles. La metodología frontera no paramétrica DEA se ha empleado para evaluar los niveles de eficiencia con los que operan …

, han tenido efecto en la eficiencia productiva de los sistemas ferroviarios europeos que las han adoptado. Para ello se … puesta en relación con los índices de eficiencia de dichos sistemas calculados según la metodología DEA por programas. Los … eficiencia y la liberalización de los sistemas ferroviarios. Cuando se realizan análisis individualizados por países esta …

incentive regulation and efficiency benchmarking in electricity distribution industries and provides valuable insights for … German distribution network operators from 2011 to 2017 to estimate both the transient and persistent cost efficiency of …

-efficient production level for an incentive regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs). With nearly 900 DSOs operating in the … German electricity sector, of which 200 subject to incentive regulation, the issue of heterogeneity of DSOs has to be … efficiency scores derived from stochastic frontier analysis. To correct for this heterogeneity in coefficients, I propose a …

This paper examines the relationship between financial market regulation, country governance and efficiency of …, we employ a non-parametric approach — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) — to estimate the banks' cost and profit efficiency … efficiency. The results suggest that commercial banks in East Asia are relatively profit efficient rather than cost efficient …

used to determine future prices when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly … significant (about 10% of total cost) for firms in the upper quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is …

subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly significant (about 7%) for firms in the upper … quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is consistent with the pooling of types under the threat of ratcheting. …

The objective of this work is to analyze the impact on Spanish retail firms¡¯ efficiency of the regulatory process … the firms¡¯ efficiency but without change over the period and the predominance of decreasing returns to scale. They also …