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 …

We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into … because they can secure more favorable prices (higher marketing efficiency) and execute production plans accordingly (higher … allocative efficiency). This may rationalize the increase in the size of the average plant observed in the industry in recent …

envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of plants into conventional sources (technical and allocative … efficiency) and a new component we call marketing efficiency. The latter measure allows us to evaluate plants’ ability to …

This study employed data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the comparative efficiency performance of selected … that commercial banks achieved higher level of overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency … institutions with efficiency scores of 1 while other MFIs experienced some overall technical inefficiency and scale inefficiency …

plants into three subcomponents: technical efficiency, allocative efficiency and a new component we call marketing efficiency …. The relative importance of these sources of efficiency is of particular interest given the recent history of bankruptcies … technical point of view as suggested by a standard deviation of 1% in technical efficiency. However, our results also show that …

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 …

chapter is a detailed study of US airport inefficiency, which answers the question: Is there a difference in the efficiency of … hub and non-hub airports in the United States? After decomposing the efficiency into scale efficiency, mixed efficiency … and pure technical efficiency, the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test is able to show that there are differences between hub and non …

Using the directional distance function we study a cross section of 110 countries to examine the efficiency of … emission intensity adjusted for technical efficiency. Only 10% of the countries are found to be on the frontier. Also, there is … considerable inter-country variation in the imputed opportunity cost of CO2 reduction. Further, differences in technical efficiency …

, maintaining and enhancing productive efficiency is a precondition for competitiveness of the Indian firms in the new liberalized … levels of technical efficiency in the Indian textiles industry at the firm level. We use both a grand frontier applicable to …