An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

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 …

both production stages likely leads to biased inferences about public productive (in)efficiency and its determinants. Hence …, this paper uses a specially tailored, fully non-parametric efficiency model allowing for both outlying observations and … efficiency. -- Public good provision ; conditional efficiency ; nonparametric estimation ; libraries ; local govenment …

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 …

The study investigates the relative efficiency and productivity change of Upper Secondary Schools in the region of … DEA output-oriented and Malmquist analysis. Empirical analysis reveals that few are efficient and most are inefficient … . The efficiency under constant returns to scale varies in interval [0.666-1.000] and under variable returns to scale in …