This paper attempts to determine whether exchange-listed hedge funds experience longer lifetimes than non-listed funds, even after factors known to affect survival, such as size and performance, are considered. The Kaplan-Meier estimator is used to compare survival times of listed and non-listed...

1 Basic DEA Models -- 2 Measure-specific DEA Models -- 3 Returns-to-Scale -- 4 DEA with Preference -- 5 Modeling Undesirable Measures -- 6 Context-dependent Data Envelopment Analysis -- 7 Benchmarking Models -- 8 Models for Evaluating Value Chains -- 9 Congestion -- 10 Super Efficiency -- 11...

Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific changes for elevating...