the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the efficiency of healthcare systems among 28 countries around the … world by applying the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. Two output variables are used: life expectancy at birth and … million of the population, and total health expenditure as a percentage of the country's GDP. Using the DEA method, we …

corrected efficiency score correlates well with standard Growth Theory indicators. …