Adoption of feasible location science is gaining more interest in the field of Facility Layout Design (FLD) problems among working researchers group. Many methods such as MCDM, Heuristics and Intelligent approaches are available to solve the FLD problems. However in reality, finding the feasible...

Banking sector has undergone several major transformations during the past few years. Numerous reformations, liberalizations, progressions in technology etc. has made the sector exclusively lucrative. This paper tries to assess the impact of these revolutions on the sector. Efficiency serves as...

This paper applies a new variant of data envelopment analysis model to examine the performance of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. The findings show a significant heterogeneity visible in the cost efficiency scores within 19 years. The decline in performance after 1994-95 can be taken...

The paper estimates the teaching efficiencies of Indian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) according to their location, ownership, courses they specialise in and age, using recent data published by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). We find...

Two alternative estimation models, i.e., a translog cost function and data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost model are compared and contrasted in revealing scale economies in the Indian commercial banking sector. The empirical results indicate that while the translog cost model exhibits...

Radial and non-radial DEA models are distinguished on the basis of the presence of slacks. Viewing slacks as a possible source of inefficiency, this paper makes an empirical attempt to assess the relative strengths of these two sets of models in examining the total factor productivity change and...

This paper empirically examines the different variants of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to select the large cap market securities in India in both constant and variable returns to scale environments. The results of this exercise are summarized as follows. First, there is a fall in...

This paper briefly reviews the existing methods of capacity utilization in nonparametric framework from economic perspectives, and then suggests an alternative in the light of limitations therein. In the spirit of work by Coelli et al. [Coelli, T.J., Grifell-Tatje, E., Perelman, S., 2002....

Grifell-Tatje and Lovell (Grifell-Tatje, E., Lovell, C.A.K., 1999. Profits and productivity. Management Science 45, 1177-1193) made significant contributions to the literature on the extended radial DEA framework by decomposing profit change into six mutually exclusive components. Their...