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Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency – Insights from the German hospital market
Schneider, Annika Maren; Oppel, Eva-Maria; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: Health Care Management Science 23 (2020) 4, pp. 649-660
, efficiency has emerged as an increasingly important way for hospitals to withstand competitive pressures in the hospital market …With hospital budgets remaining tight and healthcare expenditure rising due to demographic change and advances in … technology, hospitals continue to face calls to contain costs and allocate their resources more efficiently. In this context …
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Efficiency measurement in Greek dairy farms: Stochastic frontier vs. data envelopment analysis
Theodoridis, A. M.; Psychoudakis, A. - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 53-66
Analysis (DEA) have become very popular in the analysis of productive efficiency. This paper undertakes a comparison of the SFA and the constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) output-oriented DEA models, based on a sample of 165 dairy farms in Greece. However, the aim...
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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 2, pp. 115-145
-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second … hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a …
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Examining the Impact of Global Financial Crisis in Bank Efficiency in Saudi Arabia
Solaiman, Md. Golam; Kadar, Abdul; Azad, Md. Abul Kalam; … - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 1 (2017) 4, pp. 69-86
Aim: The global financial crisis in 2008 has obstructed almost every bank around the world. This study examines the impact of global financial crisis on bank efficiency in Saudi Arabia. Design / Research methods: This study examines the impact of global financial crisis in bank efficiency...
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Maschinenbau: mittelgroße Unternehmen mit höchsten Einsparpotentialen
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 51/52, pp. 895-899
Der deutsche Maschinenbau ist seit langem sowohl national als auch international sehr erfolgreich. Wie in kaum einem zweiten Sektor dominieren zudem mittelgroße Unternehmen. Eine erste Analyse des DIW Berlin zeigt, dass sich dieser Erfolg nicht auf eine volle Ausschöpfung vorhandener...
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Measuring and decomposing sources of productivity performance in India's paper and pulp industry under liberalized regime: A nonparametric approach
Ray, Sarbapriya - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 147-171
The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact of liberalization on productivity growth of...
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Technical efficiency of banks in Central and Eastern Europe
Horvátová, Eva - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-25
The purpose of this article is to examine what affected the technical efficiency of banks in Central and Eastern European countries during the financial crisis. Firstly, this article analyzes the technical efficiency of banks in the selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe during the...
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Does happiness matter to health system efficiency? A performance analysis
See, Kok Fong; Yen, Siew Hwa - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 33, pp. 1-10
: health expenditure, labour, hospital beds and education, and the output measures: healthy life expectancy and inverse …
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The Impact of Regional Economic Conditions on the Efficiency of Savings Banks in the Light of Demographic Change
Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Gamarra, Lucinda Trigo - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 47 (2014) 4, pp. 533-570
This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on the technical and revenue efficiency of German savings banks. It employs a two-step approach, using, first, data envelopment analysis to calculate efficiency and, second, multivariate regressions to examine the influence of regional...
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Technical efficiency of neonatal health services in primary health care facilities of Southwest Ethiopia: A two-stage data envelopment analysis
Yitbarek, Kiddus; Abraham, Gelila; Adamu, Ayinengida; … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 27, pp. 1-9
Background: Disparity in resource allocation is an issue among various health delivery units in Ethiopia. To sufficiently address this problem decision-makers require evidence on efficient allocation of resources. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the technical efficiency of...
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