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Efficiency and productivity analysis have been critical in healthcare and economics literature. Despite the tremendous innovation in methodology and data availability, a comprehensive literature review on this topic has not been conducted recently. This article provides a three-part literature...
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The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...
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This paper explores the consequences for parametric and non-parametric efficiency levels and rankings when using grouped instead of individual Decision Making Units (DMU). The bias results due to the differences of the grouped DMUs frontier compared to the individual DMUs frontier. Monte Carlo...
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companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the …
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In der deutschen Chemieindustrie ging die Zahl der Beschäftigten von 1992 bis 2004 deutlich zurück, und die durchschnittliche Unternehmensgröße sank von 824 auf 433 Beschäftigte. Die Triebfeder dieser Entwicklung war weniger die Beseitigung technischer oder organisatorischer Ineffizienzen....
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of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory … power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency … while maintaining most of the variation in the original data. Our results suggest that the PCA-DEA methodology reduces the …
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