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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...
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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...
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corrected efficiency score correlates well with standard Growth Theory indicators. …
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-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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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. …
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We evaluate the effects of structural tax reforms on government spending efficiency in a sample of OECD economies over … the period 2007-2016. After calculating input spending efficiency scores, we assess the relevance for efficiency of … narrative tax changes in a panel setup. We find that: i) input efficiency scores average around 0.6-07; ii) increases in the tax …
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from the Mongolian Stock Exchange website. The companies are grouped by k-medoids clustering, and efficiency of each … compared by financial ratios. The mean efficiency score of big companies' is much higher than that of small and medium …-sized companies. Integrated results show that cluster-specific efficiency provides better performance than pre-clustering efficiency …
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Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (1957), researchers have developed several methods for measuring e fficiency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives are nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), both introduced in the late 1970s....
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institutions are looking for ways to cut costs and to increase their efficiency in production. This paper proposes a new … efficiency are applied, whereas each is analysed by a distinct DEA approach. The results document not only the existence of …
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. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …
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