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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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Does international trade improve environmental efficiency? An application of a super slacks-based measure of efficiency
Honma, Satoshi - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-12
This study analyzes the impact of international trade on environmental efficiency. Using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model that allows us to treat undesirable outputs and super-efficiency beyond unity, we measure the environmental efficiency of four typical air pollutants-SO 2 , NOx,...
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Performance evaluation of utility exchange-traded funds: A super-efficiency approach
Tsolas, Ioannis E. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 7, pp. 1-10
Choosing funds is a general issue for investors, with the aim of balancing potential risks and returns. The aim of this article is to use a super-efficiency approach to analyze and rank exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in order to find the best utility ETFs. The range-adjusted measure (RAM)-based...
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Super-efficiency of education institutions: an application to economics departments
Gnewuch, Matthias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - In: Education Economics 26 (2018), pp. 610-623
This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go beyond the heavily used data envelopment analysis and utilize partial frontier analysis – specifically order-α and order-m – which addresses some of the drawbacks of the...
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Profit efficiency of banks in Colombia with undesirable output: A directional distance function approach
Almanza, Camilo; Mora Rodríguez, Jhon James - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-30, pp. 1-18
This article analyzes the sources of bank efficiency in Colombia over the period 2000-2011. To perform this research, the authors propose a score of bank efficiency using the directional distance function, which was estimated using data envelopment analysis. Additionally, they use an ordered...
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Anticipated effects of foreign currency reserve diversification in Asian countries: Do China and India matter for coordination?
Sell, Friedrich L. - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 1, pp. 32-38
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Diversifikationsmaße im Praxistest: Ergebnisse auf der Grundlage von amtlichen Mikrodaten für Deutschland
Zloczysti, Petra; Faber, Cathleen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 3, pp. 29-42
Die Wahl zwischen Diversifikation und Spezialisierung ist eine lange und kontrovers diskutierte Frage in der … messen, wie sie bei real existierender, also beobachtbarer Diversifikation reagieren und ob sie in Querschnitt- und … Diversifikation sowie ihrer Entwicklung im Zeitverlauf für das verarbeitende Gewerbe in Deutschland gegeben. …
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Spezialisierung und Unternehmenserfolg im verarbeitenden Gewerbe Deutschlands
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Pohl, Ramona - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 3, pp. 43-58
, enterprises that pursue a diversification strategy prove against it as clearly growth-oriented. However, not all enterprises …
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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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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 2, pp. 115-145
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 = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...
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