The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that … of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data Envelopment Analysis, to analyze the potential efficiency gains from … hypothetical mergers between water utilities at the county level. A conditional efficiency framework is applied to account for the …

We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

Estimating efficiencies of higher education institutions (HEIs) has become a central area of research in efficiency … analysis literature, particularly during the last two decades. Although the number of efficiency analysis researches in higher … between 2005 and 2010, belongs to the pioneering stream of researches conducting a comprehensive efficiency analysis on public …

We analyse overall cost efficiency in Spanish local governments during the crisis period (2008-2015). To this end, we … first consider some of the most popular nonparametric methods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment … most appropriate one for our particular context and dataset (local government cost efficiency in Spain), we carry out an …

The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields …

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a …