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Evaluating Cost Efficiency and Returns to Scale in the Life Insurance Corporation of India Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Tone, Kaoru; Sahoo, Biresh - 2012
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...
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Scale Economies in Indian Commercial Banking Sector : Evidence from DEA and Translog Estimates
Sahoo, Biresh - 2012
Two alternative estimation models, i.e., a translog cost function and data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost … results indicate that while the translog cost model exhibits increasing returns to scale for all the ownership groups, the DEA … is very restrictive. The DEA cost model is much more flexible in this respect: It neither requires the restrictive …
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Examining the Total Factor Productivity Change in Radial and Non-Radial Dea Models : An Application to Indian Commercial Banks
Sahoo, Biresh - 2012
Radial and non-radial DEA models are distinguished on the basis of the presence of slacks. Viewing slacks as a possible …
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A Comparative Application of Alternative DEA Models in Selecting Efficient Large Cap Market Securities in India
Sahoo, Biresh - 2012
This paper empirically examines the different variants of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to select the large …
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Decomposing Capacity Utilization in Data Envelopment Analysis : An Application to Banks in India
Sahoo, Biresh - 2012
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....
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Radial and Non-Radial Decompositions of Profit Change : With an Application to Indian Banking
Sahoo, Biresh - 2012
, 1177-1193) made significant contributions to the literature on the extended radial DEA framework by decomposing profit …, can be potentially misleading. To address these concerns, we first introduce non-radial DEA models, and then, provide a …
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Looking Beyond the Methods : Productivity Estimates and Growth Trends in Indian Manufacturing
Gupta, Abhay - 2009
Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates. This paper performs detailed and exhaustive set of accounting exercises for the period 1970-2003 using production function, index number and envelopment analysis methods. TFP...
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Pre-Reform Conditions, Intermediate Inputs and Distortions : Solving the Indian Growth Puzzle
Gupta, Abhay - 2009
This paper answers the puzzling questions that why under the similar set of economic conditions service sector in India grew while manufacturing could not and how economic reforms in 1990s accelerated the productivity growth. The paper provides a very innovative and convincing explanation. Two...
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Globalization Under Hysteresis : A Study of Eastern Bloc Countries, China and India
Mishra, Sudhanshu K. - 2017
This study is concerned with a great socio-economic experiment in history that replaced the naturally evolved market economy with the humanly designed command economy to achieve a socialist triumph over capitalism, experienced a setback and ultimately returned to the market economy for managing...
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Almost Equi-Marginal Principle Based Composite Index of Globalization : China, India and Pakistan
Mishra, Sudhanshu K. - 2017
The present study proposes an alternative method to construct an index of globalization which is based on the principle of almost equi-marginal contributions (AEMC) or Shapley values of the constituent variables to the overall index rather than the correlation coefficients among the constituent...
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