The study investigates the relative efficiency and productivity change of Upper Secondary Schools in the region of … . The efficiency under constant returns to scale varies in interval [0.666-1.000] and under variable returns to scale in … interval [0.759-1.000], with average efficiency score being 0.875 and 0.923 respectively. This means that given the quantities …

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

effect of electricity prices on the productive efficiency and to test the robustness of the DEA models. The DEA results … significant contribution to the productive efficiency of the six states, it does not affect the relative efficiency scores of the …

classic economic notion of structural efficiency. We here argue that it is crucial for policy analysis to be able to quantify …

Private health insurance plays a central role in the Australia's healthcare system and improving the efficiency of the … framework. In this paper, we examine the technical and scale efficiency of 30 major health insurance funds during the period … returns-to-scale assumptions to measure technical efficiency. In the second stage, we employ the truncated bootstrapped …

, we decompose productivity growth into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual … productivity growth averaged 1.04 percent across all utilities and was largely attributable to efficiency gain, roughly equally … split between pure technical efficiency and gains from scale. As in many other highly regulated Australian industries …

first attempt to model these efficiency and effectiveness issues using a 49-unit Asia-Pacific hotel chain as illustration … expenses as intermediate output/input and revenues from room rentals and F&B as final outputs. We infer that efficiency tails … off when more than 12% of the budget is expended on marketing activities. In terms of effectiveness, we find that all the …