The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non …-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public …

The efficiency of the design-to-analysis process for translating solid-model-based design data to computational … mature and that this cross-organizational issue requires committed high-level ownership. A key recommendation of the study is …

The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency … purveyor and their capital into the underlying building ownership and operation partnership, rather than the current model in … energy and water efficiency can increase the fundamental profitability of real estate investments by raising Net Operating …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency … that privatization to foreign owners markedly improved the efficiency of firms, whereas privatization to domestic owners …

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregatethe technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

This collection of articles contributes to knowledge of the German insurance industry after its liberalization by … analyzing changes in the structure and choice of distribution channels in private insurance markets in the first and second … article. In a third article the development of market performance is analyzed for the German life insurance industry. The …

has been extremely fruitful in identifying potential efficiency upgrades and implementing clean technology in the supply … promotes energy efficiency as an alternative to increasing electricity supply. It uses financial or other incentives to slow … efficiency projects by creating a market where savings are valued. Under this scheme, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated …