The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential...

No research has yet focused on comparing the efficiency among different channels when selling insurance products. To fill this gap in the research, this study concentrates on bancassurance services provided through the creation of subsidiaries and compares the efficiency of this model with the...

This study aims to assess the efficiency of housing finance companies operating in India by applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We analyse 26 housing finance companies' efficiency using various key financial indicators. In addition to DEA, we utilised Tobit regression to investigate the...

This paper compares inferences about hospital cost and production correspondences from two different estimation models: (1) the econometric modeling of the translog cost function, and (2) the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). While there are numerous examples of the application of...