technology". By separating the production of undesirable outputs from that of desirable outputs, not only do we ensure that … index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …

This paper investigates the productivity and efficiency of large bank holding companies (BHCs) in the United States …

This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

use stochastic frontier analysis methods to test for productivity and efficiency differences in manufacturing throughout … frontier estimations confirm very similar regional patterns. Nevertheless, efficiency varies strongly within states, indicating …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance of this nonparametric approach to macroeconomic efficiency analysis and …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …

This paper compares the productivity and efficiency of large banks and community banks in the United States over the … failure to consider unobserved heterogeneity results in a misleading ranking of banks and mismeasured technical efficiency …