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Measuring efficiency and productivity changes : a non-parametric analysis of Ghanaian life insurance industry
Ashiagbor, Albert Ayi; Dziwornu, Raymond; Gbade, Aku Vivian - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14
productivity changes of the life insurance industry in Ghana poses management challenges. The main objective of this paper is to … measure the efficiency and productivity changes in the life insurance industry in Ghana. The Ghana National Insurance … the bootstrap technique to measure the productivity changes of a sample of 19 out of 20 Ghanaian life insurance firms for …
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Regional and ownership drivers of bank efficiency
Zelenyuk, Natalya; Zelenyuk, Valentin - 2014
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The contribution of physical and human capital accumulation to Italian regional growth : a nonparametric perspective
Gitto, Simone; Mancuso, Paolo - In: Journal of productivity analysis 43 (2015) 1, pp. 1-12
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Directional distances and their robust versions : computational and testing issues
Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 237 (2014) 1, pp. 358-369
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Is foreign-bank efficiency in financial centers driven by home or host country characteristics?
Curi, Claudia; Guarda, Paolo; Lozano Vivas, Ana; … - In: Journal of productivity analysis 40 (2013) 3, pp. 367-385
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Productivity, efficiency, and technical change of Tunisian schools : a bootstrapped Malmquist approach with quasi-fixed inputs
Essid, Hédi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stéphane - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 42 (2014), pp. 88-97
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Nonparametric statistical analysis of production
Mastromarco, Camilla; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - In: The Palgrave handbook of economic performance analysis, (pp. 301-382). 2019
A rich literature on the analysis of efficiency in production has developed since pioneering work of Tjalling Koopmans and George Debreu in the 1950s. This literature includes work by researchers in economics, econometrics, management science, operations research, mathematical statistics and...
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Identifying congestion levels, sources and determinants on intensive care units : the Portuguese case
Ferreira, Diogo; Marques, Rui Cunha - In: Health care management science 21 (2018) 3, pp. 348-375
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Firm credit scoring : a series two-stage DEA bootstrapped approach
Tsolas, Ioannis E. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-12
series two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) combined with bootstrap and hierarchical clustering. The results of the two …-stage DEA bootstrapped analysis indicate that the key problem with the firms' performance is a lack of effectiveness rather than …' performance metrics are unrelated. As a result, a bootstrapped DEA-based synthetic indicator is developed to be used with the …
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Panel stochastic frontier analysis with dependent error terms
El Mehdi, Rachida; Hafner, Christian M. - In: International econometric review 13 (2021) 2, pp. 24-40
(AIC) is used for model selection. Moreover, a likelihood ratio test is performed for the nested models. A bootstrap …
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