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Relationship between productivity and efficiency with sustainable development goals : the case of the manufacturing industry in Pichincha, Ecuador
Ibujés-Villacís, Juan; Franco-Crespo, Antonio - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 35 (2023), pp. 34-56
research aims to know what has been the behavior of productivity and efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the province … reports of the manufacturing companies between 2010 and 2018 was processed. The values of efficiency were estimated using the … data enveloping analysis technique. With the annual information, the evolution of productivity and efficiency was predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340294
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying … economy) is calculated to measure technical efficiency. Efficiency scores are then related to the fiscal equalization scheme … competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …
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Measuring economic journals' citation efficiency : a data envelopment analysis approach
Halkos, George E.; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. - 2011
economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524871
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Monte Carlo experiments on bootstrap DEA
Tziogkidis, Panagiotis - 2012
Since the introduction of bootstrap DEA there is a growing literature on applications which use this method, mainly for hypothesis testing. It is therefore important to establish the consistency and evaluate the performance of bootstrap DEA. The few Monte Carlo experiments in the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009583702
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Bootstrap DEA and hypothesis testing
Tziogkidis, Panagiotis - 2012
Bootstrapping non-parametric models is a fairly complicated exercise which is associated with implicit assumptions or requirements that are not always obvious to the non-expert user. Bootstrap DEA is a significant development of the past decade; however, some of its assumptions and properties are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009583705
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Evaluation of Upper Secondary Schools on efficiency and productivity change in 2016-2019 : empirical evidence from schools in the region in Central Greece
Margaritis, Stylianos Gr. - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 71 (2021) 3/4, pp. 101-121
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 …
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Innovation rankings : good, bad or revealing?
Cai, Yuezhou; Hanley, Aoife - 2013
corrected efficiency score correlates well with standard Growth Theory indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211754
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A nonparametric analysis of competitiveness efficiency : the relevance of firm size and the configuration of competitive pillars
Lafuente, Esteban; Leiva, Juan Carlos; Moreno-Gómez, Jorge - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 23 (2020) 3, pp. 203-216
-affects efficiency and how firm size moderates this relationship. The mean efficiency scores by which the competitiveness output can be … optimized is 47.43%. The results suggest that the configuration of competitive pillars has important implications for efficiency … detrimental to efficiency. Also, a configuration of competitive pillars in which one or various competitive strengths prevail is …
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Empirical efficiency measurement in higher education : an overview
D'Elía, Vanesa Valeria; Ferro, Gustavo - 2019
This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146695
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Measuring tax burden efficiency in OECD countries : an international comparison
Afonso, António; Montes, Ana Patricia; Domínguez … - 2024
In this paper, we estimate the potential tax burden in a panel data set comprising OECD countries over the period 2000-2021. To this end, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). In this way, it will be possible for...
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