An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

suffered from significant inefficiencies. In this work, we estimate the intermediation-type efficiency of individual banks, and … find strong support for the conclusions from the agency theory: we find that banks that were 100% foreign-owned were …

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 …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a … energy generation technology, but natural gas fired power plants clearly have the highest efficiency. Furthermore, the …

In this paper we present a new approach to evaluate the environmental efficiency of decision making units. We propose a … environmental efficiency being determined by the efficiency of both stages. Taking the dependencies between the two stages into … account, we show how nonparametric methods can be used to measure environmental efficiency and to decompose it into production …