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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches
Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46
This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …
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A Decision-Making Framework for Supporting an Equitable Global Vaccine Distribution Under Humanitarian Perspectives
Cai, Junyang; Zhou, Jian; Pantelous, Athanasios A.; Li, … - 2023
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis, several high-income countries pursued vaccine nationalism (i.e., my country first approaches for vaccine distribution), leading to an even wider income inequality between rich and poor countries. This significantly challenged the poorer countries'...
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well … sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the Nordics, are … not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This means that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164102
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175828
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the world happiness report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431350
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Digital economies and evolving regulations : a parametric and non-parametric approach with bad output across countries
Mishra, Shila; Chauhan, Manish; Mathur, Somesh K. - 2022
workout efficiency and productivity of the ICT sector across 50 countries for the time period 2016 and 2020. By considering … services trade restrictiveness) on productivity and efficiency of the ICT sector across countries. The SFA scores are compared … with the DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist Index based on four DEA problems are used to work out the total factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169136
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Competition and regulation as a means of reducing CO2 emissions : experience from U.S. fossil fuel power plants
Growitsch, Christian; Paulus, Simon; Wetzel, Heike - 2017
Levels of CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the U.S. have changed considerably in the last decade. This development can be attributed to two factors. First, the shale gas revolution has reduced gas prices significantly, leading to a crowding out of the more CO2-intensive coal for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590580
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Competition and regulation as a means of reducing CO2 emissions : experience from U.S. fossil fuel power plants
Growitsch, Christian; Paulus, Simon; Wetzel, Heike - 2016
Levels of CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the U.S. have changed considerably in the last decade. This development can be attributed to two factors. First, the shale gas revolution has reduced gas prices significantly, leading to a crowding out of the more CO2-intensive coal for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595798
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Global Warming and Environmental Production Efficiency Ranking of the Kyoto Protocol Nations
Feroz, Ehsan H.; Raab, Raymond L.; Ulleberg, Gerald T.; … - 2018
environmental production efficiency rankings of these nations? Secondly, is there a relationship between a nation's ratification … status and its environmental production efficiency ranking? We use the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare the …'s efficiency record as a relative benchmark in a truly global sense.Our findings suggest that the nations that have ratified the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047375
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Towards a Consolidation of Worldwide Journal Rankings — A Classification Using Random Forests and Aggregate Rating via Data Envelopment Analysis
Pishchulov, Grigory; Tuselmann, Heinz; Sinkovics, Rudolf R - 2014
The question of how to assess research outputs published in journals is now a global concern for academics. Numerous journal ratings and rankings exist, some featuring perceptual and peer-review-based journal ranks, some focusing on objective information related to citations, some using a...
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