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A comparison of parametric and nonparametric estimation methods for cost frontiers and economic measures
Parman, Bryon J.; Featherstone, Allen M. - In: Journal of applied economics 22 (2019) 1, pp. 60-85
restricting errors to be above the cost frontier, the stochastic frontier method, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The data … two output firms. The DEA estimator was most robust in estimating the "true" cost frontier and associated economic …
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Competing in the higher education market : empirical evidence for economies of scale and scope in German higher education institutions
Olivares, Maria; Wetzel, Heike - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 4, pp. 653-680
Since the late 1990s, the European higher education system has had to face deep structural changes. With the public authorities seeking to create an environment of quasi-markets in the higher education sector, the increased competition induced by recent reforms has pushed all publicly financed...
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Technical and scale efficiencies of meat goat farms in the USA
Qushim, B.; Gillespie, Jeffrey M.; Paudel, Krishna P.; … - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 7/9, pp. 608-620
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Competing in the higher education market : empirical evidence for economies of scale and scope in German higher education institutions
Olivares, Maria; Wetzel, Heike - 2011
Since the late 1990s, the European higher education system has had to face deep structural changes. With the public authorities seeking to create an environment of quasi-markets in the higher education sector, the increased competition induced by recent reforms has pushed all publicly financed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419390
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Scale and scope economies of Japanese private universities revisited with an input distance function approach
Nemoto, Jiro; Furumatsu, Noriko - In: Journal of productivity analysis 41 (2014) 2, pp. 213-226
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Does ANSP size and scope matter in the European ANS market? : a multi-product stochastic frontier approach
Buyle, Sven; Dewulf, Wouter; Kupfer, Franziska; Onghena, Evy - In: Journal of air transport management 83 (2020), pp. 1-7
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Economies of scope in European railways : an efficiency analysis
Growitsch, Christian (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of scope and, thus, produce railway services with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003350582
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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals
Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - 2003
A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … are not treated as an output but as an input. Second, the usual DEA assumption of a homogeneous sample is tested and … rejected for a large part of the observations. The proposed solution is to restrict DEA to comparable observations in the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507017
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Bank efficiency and financial ratios : rating the performance of the four largest South African banks
Westhuizen, G. van der - In: The journal of applied business research 30 (2014) 1, pp. 93-104
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